Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston | Resources

Sweat Further Reading

Croft, Robert W., A Zora Neale Hurston Companion, Greenwood Press, 2002.

This indexed overview considers Hurston's literary career as a whole and provides a useful reference source for examining the author's short fiction in relation to her other writings.

Gates, Henry L., Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad Press, 1999.

This collection of analysis of Hurston's entire body of work provides a series of essays from diverse critical lenses and time periods.

Hurston, Zora Neale, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, edited by Carla Kaplan, Doubleday, 2002.

A comprehensive collection of Hurston's letters, this volume is vividly suggestive about her life, writings, and decline in popularity.

Miles, Diana, Women, Violence, & Testimony in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Peter Lang Publishing, 2003.

Miles's book focuses on some of the most important themes in "Sweat," as evidenced in several...
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