Most Popular Books by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon désigne les bâtiments utilisés pour le confinement des Africains destinés à être vendus et exportés vers l’Europe et les Amériques. Ces bâtiments allaient du modeste « abri à esclaves » aux imposantes « maisons d’esclaves » ou « châteaux d’esclaves ». Les captifs y restaient souvent confinés pendant des mois entiers. En 1927, la jeune anthropologue Zora Neale Hurston, qui va devenir l’une des plus grandes écrivaines noires du XXe siècle part rencontrer en Alabama Cudjo Lewis. A 86 ans, Cudjo est l’ultime survivant du dernier convoi négrier qui a quitté les côtes du Dahomey pour l’Amérique. Pendant des mois, Zora va recueillir sa parole, devenir son amie, partager ses souffrances et des fiertés. Le témoignage de Cudjo restitue comme nul autre la condition, la vie d’un esclave : de sa capture en 1859 par un village voisin à sa terrifiante traversée, de ses années d’esclavage jusqu’à la guerre de sécession, jusqu’à son combat pour son émancipation. Un témoignage unique d’une sincérité et d’une précision bouleversante.

Gathers local folklore, folk songs, childrens games, and essays on race, the Black church, and Black artists

Janie Stark, la protagonista del romanzo più celebre di Zora Neale Hurston, sembra un’avventuriera sospesa tra le riflessioni del femminismo contemporaneo e una dimensione ancestrale, in cui la sopraffazione di una donna nera si riflette anche nell’ecosistema, in questo romanzo vorticoso fatto di viaggi e uragani. Difficile credere che Janie sia nata ufficialmente nel 1937, l’anno in cui Their Eyes Were Watching God venne pubblicato per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti, tanto sono vivide le impressioni sulla sua battaglia di vita. In un’atmosfera tesa tra l’incanto primaverile e la schiacciante realtà, Janie Stark prova a ricavarsi una nicchia che vada bene per lei e lei soltanto. Nel romanzo è una donna nera di quarant’anni intenta a raccontarsi a un’amica attraverso degli squarci nel passato. Nel tentativo di motivare le scelte che le hanno procurato il biasimo della città, Janie ricorda la scoperta della bellezza quando era un’adolescente; il primo dolore nel piegarsi alle decisioni altrui; il matrimonio infelice con un uomo che la voleva diversa; la fuga con Joe – uomo ambizioso e di sostanza, deciso a diventare qualcuno – che poi si dimostra arrogante e violento; e infine la vera primavera: l’incontro con il giovane Tea Cake, forse la sua unica esperienza d’amore. Insieme, Janie e Tea Cake attraversano il paese, si reinventano come raccoglitori stagionali di fagioli, sfidando le convenzioni e beandosi della gioia di un amore autentico. Eppure anche lui è in preda a gelosie incontrollabili e, quando un uragano li colpisce, Janie sarà costretta a decretare la fine di quella storia d’amore e a tornare alla sua vita di prima attraverso un atto violento. L’esperienza della felicità, benché perduta, le resta addosso come una presenza, come un velo. Con gli occhi rivolti al cielo è un libro fatto di ripetizioni – tre matrimoni e tutti finiti male – e di ambizione perché, in tutte le sue giravolte, Janie è decisa a spezzare la sequenza della sua oppressione, al rischio di essere fraintesa. Se si prende questo romanzo in mano per il contenuto, è per la lingua che si resta, perché è proprio nello stile che si sente la forza di una scrittrice diventata studiosa di sé stessa. Claudia Durastanti “Una delle più grandi autrici del nostro tempo.” Toni Morrison “Un romanzo sospeso tra le riflessioni del femminismo contemporaneo e una dimensione ancestrale.” Claudia Durastanti

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"En av vår tids största författare." Toni Morrison Första gången på svenska! En kväll kommer Janie Starks vandrande på Eatonvilles huvudgata. I takt med hennes steg briserar stadens nyfikenhet: Var har hon varit? Vart tog pengarna, kläderna och den unge mannen vägen? För sin närmsta vän Pheoby berättar hon om allt som tog henne dit: från de vitas bakgård till drömmarna och den dödliga dyn i Floridas träskmarker. Genom tre äktenskap, i ett rasistiskt och patriarkalt samhälle i början av 1900-talet, erövrar Janie både friheten och kärleken. Romanklassikern "De vände sina blickar mot Gud" (1937) har hyllats för sina karaktärsporträtt och sitt rika språk djupt rotat i muntlig berättartradition. Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) anses vara en av de viktigaste rösterna inom amerikansk litteratur, och en pionjär i att ge kvinnors och svarta människors erfarenheter en stark och självständig röst. "Den här starka berättelsen om mänsklig frigörelse gavs ut redan 1937. Det är hög tid att den får en svensk översättning." Dagens Nyheter "Jag slukade boken. Tre timmar senare var jag klar och grät floder, av skäl som både hade och inte hade med det tragiska slutet att göra." Zadie Smith

Includes writings of pioneer black American women. The writings of Alice McCloud & hundreds of biographical sketches of women scientists, engineers, civil rights organizers & legislators are highlighted. Zora Neol Hurston''s southern recording expedition in Florida is included.

Janie avait seize ans. Un feuillage vernissé et des bourgeons tout près d’éclore et le désir de prendre à bras-le-corps la vie, mais la vie semblait se dérober. Où donc étaient-elles, ses abeilles chanteuses à elle ?... Du haut des marches elle scruta le monde aussi loin qu’elle put, et puis elle descendit jusqu’à la barrière et s’y pencha pour contempler la route de droite et de gauche. Guettant, attendant, le souffle écourté par l’impatience. Attendant que le monde vienne à se faire. » Il ne faudra pas moins de trois mariages et trois vies – le vieux Logan Killicks et ses sentiments trop frustes, le fringant Joe Starks et ses ambitions politiques dévorantes, puis la promesse d’égalité, l’étreinte d’amour et le frisson extatique qu’incarne Tea Cake – pour permettre à Janie d’atteindre toute la mesure de son rêve d’émancipation et de liberté. Portrait d’une femme entière, animée par la force de son innocence, qui brave la rumeur du monde et se révèle à l’existence, Mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu est un chef-d’œuvre – et l’un des tout premiers romans écrits par une Afro-Américaine. Un monument de la littérature, aussi percutant aujourd’hui que lors de sa parution aux États-Unis en 1937. À découvrir ou redécouvrir dans une traduction inédite magistrale.

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great--not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision. In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel about one of the most infamous figures in the Bible, Herod the Great. In Hurston''s retelling, Herod is not the wicked ruler of the New Testament who is charged with the "slaughter of the innocents," but a forerunner of Christ--a beloved king who enriched Jewish culture and brought prosperity and peace to Judea. From the peaks of triumph to the depths of human misery, the historical Herod "appears to have been singled out and especially endowed to attract the lightning of fate," Hurston writes. An intimate of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the Judean king lived during the first century BCE, in a time of war and imperial expansion that was rife with political assassinations and bribery, as the old world gave way to the new. Portraying Herod within this vivid and dynamic world of antiquity, little known to modern readers, Hurston''s unfinished manuscript brings this complex, compelling, and misunderstood leader fully into focus. Hurston shared her findings about Herod''s rise, his reign, and his waning days in letters to friends and associates. Text from three of these letters concludes the manuscript in an intimate way. Scholar-Editor Deborah Plant''s "Commentary: A Story Finally Told" assesses Hurston''s pioneering work and underscores Hurston''s perspective that the first century BCE has much to teach us and that the lens through which to view this dramatic and stirring era is the life and times of Herod the Great.

The Mule-Bone; A comedy of Negro life in three acts, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

" Um clássico de Zora Neale Hurston que conta a história épica de Janie Crawford em sua busca por uma identidade.Uma jornada sobre o amor, as alegrias e as tristezas da vida. Aclamado como o mais belo romance da literatura negra norte-americana de sua época, Seus olhos viam Deus descreve a trajetória de Janie Crawford, uma heroína afro-americana que enfrenta o tabu de escolher o próprio destino na Flórida da década de 1930. Hurston não escreve, especificamente, sobre a discriminação num mundo dominado por brancos — o que lhe rendeu algumas críticas de militantes pelos direitos dos negros —, mas é precisa na construção da tensão dos relacionamentos. O uso de dialetos e da linguagem coloquial em Seus olhos viam Deus atraiu para a escritora a crítica de outros autores negros, que a acusavam de uma atitude paternalista em relação aos brancos. Para estes, Hurston concedia aos brancos os estereótipos culturais negros esperados pela classe dominante. A escritora, que chegou a ganhar uma bolsa de estudos da Fundação Guggenheim em 1937, foi recebida com certa resistência por autores ligados ao Renascimento do Harlem e praticamente ignorada nos anos 1950 e 1960. Anos mais tarde, no entanto, quando aslutas dos movimentos negros abriram espaço para a literatura negra nas universidades dos Estados Unidos, o talento literário de Zora foi reconhecido ao lado de grandes figuras do feminismo negro, como Audre Lorde e Alice Walker, e a admiração tomou o lugar da crítica. Surgia assim um amplo movimento liderado por pensadoras e ativistas afro-americanas, dedicadas a traçar as matrilinhagens da intelectualidade negra, e que reverenciam Seus olhos viam Deus como uma “obra-mestra” (ou maestrapiece, como propôs Alice Walker). Seus olhos viam Deus acompanha o retorno à terra natal, depois de uma longa ausência, de Janie Crawford. Seus compatriotas, principalmente as mulheres, são desinteressantes e nada amistosos, sempre fofocando, engalfinhados em cochichos na porta de casa. O assunto preferido de Janie são suas aventuras amorosas: casada aos 12 anos com um homem muito mais velho — e muito mais rico —, por intervenção da avó, ela foge em busca de um caminho próprio. A heroína de Seus olhos viam Deus incorpora o inconformismo com o status quo. Uma revolta contra o que se espera de uma mulher pobre e negra. Ela denuncia a violência contra as mulheres em geral e as negras em particular. Casada três vezes e acusada de matar um dos maridos, Janie Crawford atrai para si a inveja das mulheres e o ódio dos homens. A miríade de emoções que a volta da filha pródiga causa aos moradores da pequena cidade nos confins da Flórida leva Janie a tentar se justificar, abrindo seus segredos para a amiga Pheoby. “Não há livro mais importante que esse.” - Alice Walker, autora de A cor púrpura “Há uma bela simetria entre texto e contexto no caso de Seus olhos viam Deus: o livro afirma e celebra a cultura negra (...).” - Mary Helen Washington, crítica literária, ensaísta, professora da Universidade de Maryland "

Features the author''s novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," her autobiography, "Dust Tracks on a Road," and her study of African American folklore from Louisiana and Florida, "Mules and Men"

From the Publisher: This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston''s short fiction-most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime-reveals the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. Spanning her career from 1921 to 1955, these stories attest to Hurston''s tremendous range and establish themes that recur in her longer fiction. With rich language and imagery, the stories in this collection not only map Hurston''s development and concerns as a writer but also provide an invaluable reflection of the mind and imagination of the author of the acclaimed novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

"Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set includes: Dust Tracks on a Road--an intimate and insightful memoir of Zora''s childhood in the rural South and her rise to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Jonah''s Gourd Vine--a novel about a young man who loves too many women. Mules and Men--an oral history of Black American folklore featuring sermons, songs, sayings, and tall tales since the days of enslavement. Tell My Horse--an insider look at the voodoo culture of Haiti and Jamaica of the 1930s. The Complete Stories--a collection of Zora''s most popular short fiction. Every Tongue Got to Confess--an anthology of folktales that recounts the voices of ordinary people and celebrates the richness of Black vernacular. Moses, Man of the Mountain--a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith that blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song. Seraph on the Suwanee--a novel examining a complicated marriage. Mule Bone--a three-act play written with Langston Hughes that explores life in a rural Southern black community. Their Eyes Were Watching God--the Southern love story that is the most highly acclaimed novel in the African-American literary canon." -- Amazon.com (viewed on September 26, 2023)

"Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set includes: Dust Tracks on a Road--an intimate and insightful memoir of Zora''s childhood in the rural South and her rise to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Jonah''s Gourd Vine--a novel about a young man who loves too many women. Mules and Men--an oral history of Black American folklore featuring sermons, songs, sayings, and tall tales since the days of enslavement. Tell My Horse--an insider look at the voodoo culture of Haiti and Jamaica of the 1930s. The Complete Stories--a collection of Zora''s most popular short fiction. Every Tongue Got to Confess--an anthology of folktales that recounts the voices of ordinary people and celebrates the richness of Black vernacular. Moses, Man of the Mountain--a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith that blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song. Seraph on the Suwanee--a novel examining a complicated marriage. Mule Bone--a three-act play written with Langston Hughes that explores life in a rural Southern black community. Their Eyes Were Watching God--the Southern love story that is the most highly acclaimed novel in the African-American literary canon." -- Amazon.com (viewed on September 26, 2023)

Die amerikanische Autorin (1891-1960) erzählt die Geschichte von ihrem Heimatort Eatonville, Florida, der einzigen von Schwarzen gegründeten und verwalteten Stadt der USA.

Hurston writes to Mr. Hartman thanking him for his 18 December letter just forwarded by her publisher and is honored to autograph his copies of her books. "It makes me feel like working hard to try and make my next work something nearer to the internal concept than the last." She adds a post script hoping he had a good Christmas.

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Een jonge zwarte vrouw in Florida in de jaren dertig van de twintigste eeuw zoekt haar levensvervulling in de zwarte samenleving.

In this 2-page letter to the Sentinel reprinted by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Monday, Aug.23,1955), Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston denounced the Brown vs. Board of Education (1955) decision,which legalized desegregation. She argued that Blacks should not fight to be included in white spaces since whites do not accept them and that Black schools would tremendously improve if they remained segregated. Hurston’s views were widely supported by the “Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties” and Blacks. A short closing note by the publisher is included at the bottom of the second article on the reverse side.