Jump at de Sun the Story of Zora Neale Hurston
Title | Jump at de Sun the Story of Zora Neale Hurston PDF eBook |
Author | A. P. Porter |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1992-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780605105300 |
Jump at de Sun
Title | Jump at de Sun PDF eBook |
Author | A. P. Porter |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0876146671 |
Follows the life of the Afro-American writer known for her novels, plays, articles, and collections of folklore.
Jump at the Sun
Title | Jump at the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Alicia D. Williams |
Publisher | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2021-01-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1534419136 |
From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature. Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.
Jump at de Sun
Title | Jump at de Sun PDF eBook |
Author | A. P. Porter |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780606123709 |
Zora's mother used to tell her to Jump at de sun. She wanted Zora to be proud of herself and to do great things. This biography tells of her courageous struggle to write about the culture she valued. Zora was one of the first scholars to promote African-American culture as a self-contained heritage. Photos.(Y oung Adult)
Jump at de Sun; Story of Zora Neale Hurston
Title | Jump at de Sun; Story of Zora Neale Hurston PDF eBook |
Author | A. P. Porter |
Publisher | Everbind |
Pages | |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780784825648 |
A biography of the African American novelist.
How It Feels to be Colored Me
Title | How It Feels to be Colored Me PDF eBook |
Author | Zora Neale Hurston |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 2024-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1504081471 |
The acclaimed author of Their Eyes Were Watching God relates her experiences as an African American woman in early-twentieth-century America. In this autobiographical essay, author Zora Neale Hurston recounts episodes from her childhood in different communities in Florida: Eatonville and Jacksonville. She reflects on what those experiences showed her about race, identity, and feeling different. “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” was originally published in 1928 in the magazine The World Tomorrow.
Zora Neale Hurston
Title | Zora Neale Hurston PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Kaplan, Ph.D. |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 906 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307430367 |
“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.