Zora Neale Hurston - (25) ~ by SaralynArati

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SaralynArati

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Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, for a number of cultural and political reasons. Many readers objected to the representation of African-American dialect in Hurston's novels, given the racially charged history of dialect fiction in American literature. Her stylistic choices in terms of dialogue were influenced by her academic experiences. Thinking like a folklorist, Hurston strove to represent speech patterns of the period which she documented through ethnographic research.

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Based on her work in the South, sponsored from 1928 to 1932 by Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy philanthropist, Hurston wrote "Mules and Men" in 1935. She was doing research in lumber camps and commented on the practice of white men in power taking black women as sexual concubines, including having them bear children. This later was referred to as "paramour rights." During her last decade, she worked as a freelance writer for the media, and covered a murder trial involving "paramour rights."

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Hurston received her B.A. in anthropology in 1928, when she was 37. She was twice married, but neither was a lasting relationship. In 1934 she established a school of dramatic arts "based on pure Negro expression" at Bethune-Cookman University (at the time, Bethune-Cookman College), a historically black college in Daytona Beach, Florida. Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research.

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She was raised, the daughter of two former slaves, in Eatonville, Florida; in 1887 it was one of the first all-black towns to be incorporated in the United States. It was a place where African Americans could live as they desired, independent of white society. Hurston describes the experience of growing up there in her 1928 essay, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me". In 1925, Hurston was offered a scholarship to Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was the college's sole black student.

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