Zora Neale Hurston by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer’s work, You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays is an invaluable chronicle of a writer’s development and a window into her world and time. The essays in this essential collection are grouped thematically and cover a panoply of topics, including politics, race and gender, and folkloric study from the height of the Harlem Renaissance to the early years of the Civil Rights movement. Among the selections are Hurston’s well-known works such as “How It Feels to be Colored Me” and “My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience.” Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white doctor. One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica / Zora Neale Hurston with a new foreword by Ishmael Reed series editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.-book. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. “One of the greatest writers of our time.”-Toni Morrison Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author. Read You Dont Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Genevieve West with a free trial.

Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Zora Neale Hurston by Henry Louis Gates Jr.