A poignant mixture of biography and oral history, Barracoon consists of a series of interviews between writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston and Cudjo Lewis, an African man who was one of the last slaves to be brought legally into the United States to in order to be sold as slaves. Hurston sought out the 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis at his home in Plateau, Alabama in the summer of 1927. Over a series of conversations, Lewis spoke with Hurston about a great many topics, along the way addressing themes Among other themes such as humanity, loss, oppression, and hope. Hurston narrates short portions of the text, while the rest of the story consists of Cudjo's memories, represented faithfully by Hurston in Cudjo's colloquial vernacular.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), folklorist and novelist, was best known for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in whic...
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"Zora was funny, irreverent (she was the first to call the Harlem Renaissance literati the 'niggerati'), good-looking and sexy," wrote Alice Walker. Having been one of the most prolific African-Americ...
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From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty-year period she published seven books, numerous short st...
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Zora Neale Hurston achieved moderate success during the Harlem Renaissance as a short-story writer and a collector of black-American folklore. Her stories deserve attention beyond the concerns of bla...
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Biography EssayFrom the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many ...
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston