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Зора Нил Херстон

Zora Neale Hurston

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  • Их глаза видели Бога. Роман о любви и надежде Зора Нил Херстон
    ISBN: 978-5-04-164850-3
    Год издания: 2024
    Издательство: Бомбора
    Язык: Русский

    Джени Кроуфорд была уготована традиционная судьба чернокожей женщины: не ропщи, не высовывайся, во всем повинуйся белым и мужу. Не жди, что твоя жизнь будет чем-то отличаться от тех, что прожили твоя бабушка, мать и еще сотни тысяч других цветных. Сначала так и было: два первых мужа Джени были озабочены собой и тем, чтобы занять "достойное" положение в обществе, жена была лишь приятным дополнением. Представить, что у молодой красивой женщины есть собственное мнение, желания и мечты они были не в состоянии. Только в третьем браке Джени раскрылась как большой белый цветок на грушевом дереве. Судьба подарила ей встречу с молодым…

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  • Барракун. История последнего раба, рассказанная им самим Зора Нил Херстон
    ISBN: 978-5-04-170079-9
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Эксмо, Бомбора
    Язык: Русский
    В XIX веке в барракунах, в помещениях с совершенно нечеловеческими условиями, содержали рабов. Позже так стали называть и самих невольников. Одним из таких был Коссола, но настоящее имя его Куджо Льюис. Его вывезли из Африки на корабле "Клотильда" через пятьдесят лет после введения запрета на трансатлантическую работорговлю.

    В 1927 году Зора Нил Херстон взяла интервью у восьмидесятишестилетнего Куджо Льюиса. Из миллионов мужчин, женщин и детей, перевезенных из Африки в Америку рабами, Куджо был единственным живым свидетелем мучительной переправы за океан, ужасах работорговли и долгожданного обретения свободы.

    Куджо вспоминает свой африканский дом и колоритный уклад деревенской жизни, и в каждой фразе звучит яркий, сильный и самобытный голос человека, который родился свободным, а стал известен как последний раб в США.
  • Sweat Zora Neale Hurston
    Язык: Английский
    Sweat is a short story by the American writer Zora Neale Hurston, first published in 1926. The story revolves around a washerwoman and her unemployed, insecure husband. Robert E. Hemenway, the Chancellor of University of Kansas and the author of a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, praised the Sweat as "a remarkable work, her best fiction of the period".
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave Зора Нил Херстон
    Abducted from Africa, sold in America.“A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”– Daily TelegraphA major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.This account illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last «Black Cargo» ship to arrive in the United States. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
  • Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hurston
    ISBN: 9780060854089
    Год издания: 2006
    Издательство: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    Язык: Английский
    First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston's very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life -- public and private -- of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America. Full of the wit and wisdom of a proud, spirited woman who started off low and climbed high, Dust Tracks on a Road is a rare treasure from one of literature's most cherished voices.
  • Mules and Men Zora Neale Hurston
    ISBN: 9780060916480
    Год издания: 1990
    Издательство: Harper Perennial
    Язык: Английский
    Acclaimed by celebrated folklorist Alan Lomax as "the most engaging, genuine and skillfully written book in the filed of folklore." This is Hurston's first great collection of African American tales, songs and sayings. For the student of cultural history -- or anyone who loves a good story well told -- this treasury captures the imagination as only great literature can."A classic in style and form....Introduces the reader to the whole world of jook joints, lying contests, and tall tale sessions that make up the drama of the folk life of black people in the rural South."--Mary Helen Washington
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays Зора Нил Херстон
    ISBN: 9780008522964
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: HQ
    With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West
    The first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston
    You Don't Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston's writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could.
    Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every aspect of American culture-"modif[ying] the language, mode of food preparation, practice of medicine, and most certainly religion." White supremacy prevents the world from seeing or completely recognizing Black people in their full humanity and Hurston made it her job to lift the veil and reveal the heart and soul of the race. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was - someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students. Also covered is the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing her lover, a white doctor.
    Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer's work, You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays is an invaluable chronicle of a writer's development and a window into her world and mind.
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays Зора Нил Херстон
    ISBN: 978-0063043855
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Amistad
    Язык: Английский
    You Don’t Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston’s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people’s inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every aspect of American culture—"modif[ying] the language, mode of food preparation, practice of medicine, and most certainly religion.” White supremacy prevents the world from seeing or completely recognizing Black people in their full humanity and Hurston made it her job to lift the veil and reveal the heart and soul of the race. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was—someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students. Also covered is the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing her lover, a white doctor.

    Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer’s work, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays is an invaluable chronicle of a writer’s development and a window into her world and mind.
  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Зора Нил Херстон
    ISBN: 9780008434342
    Год издания: 2021
    Издательство: HQ
    In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston - the sole black student at Barnard College, New York - was living in the city, 'desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.'

    During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.
    Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's 'lost' Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives.
    These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humour, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston's world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer's voice and her contributions to America's literary traditions.
  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Zora Neale Hurston
    ISBN: 978-0062915795
    Год издания: 2020
    Издательство: Amistad
    Язык: Английский
    From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of "Barracoon" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God"—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.

    In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.

    "Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick" is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
  • The Skull Talks Back : And Other Haunting Tales Zora Neale Hurston
    ISBN: 0060006315
    Год издания: 2004
    Язык: Русский
    Book Description Do you dare to cross paths with ... An enchantress who can slip in and out of her skin, A man more evil than the devil, A skull who talks back, A pair of creepy feet that can walk on