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Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick Overview
The short works of the Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston are presented in their entirety within the collection entitled Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick. Containing 21 short stories in all, the collection focuses on the two main settings of Eatonville, Florida, and New York City. The cast of characters inhabiting the stories undergo a variety of trials and tribulations, but ultimately the power of the human spirit is underscored. Over the course of the collection, Hurston addresses themes such as the black identity, the meaning of courage, and the importance of compassion.
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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
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Zora Neale Hurston