![]() ![]() ![]() Hurston’s writing is mean and impressive and she challenges the reader to think and go back and think again – about the meaning of her words. ![]() ![]() In the words of Alice Walker “the language of the characters, that ‘dialect’ that has been laughed at, denied or ignored, or ‘improved’ so that white folks ……can understand it is simply beautiful”. Hurston writes about black American ‘folk art’ that is questioning and without apology. The book is an extraordinary journey through the title. Zadie Smith wrote passionately about Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and how, having read this book, her life and writing had been enriched.Īt the time and having read Smith’s review, I felt at last here was recognition for a black woman writer who Alice Walker describes as “a woman ahead of her time”, and here was I with an anthology of her work bought in 1985 and whom I had quoted from frequently – I now felt like a woman ahead of my time The book is edited by Alice Walker.In 2007 the Guardian newspaper asked women to recommend a book that had made an impact on them as women. It is an anthology of works that provides a wonderful insight into American social and cultural history as well as offering an incredible mental picture of the woman – Hurston. It contains fourteen remarkable selections from a writer who produced novels, essays and letters from 1920 – 1950. This is a collection of work from the novelist Zora Neale Hurston. ![]()
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