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Zora Neale Hurston (1891 -1960)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891 -1960). Folklorist, writer, storyteller, and dramatist. Zora Neale Hurston was one of the most important and celebrated figures to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. During this time, she was known as a play write and short story author.

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891 -1960)

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  1. Zora Neale Hurston (1891 -1960) Folklorist, writer, storyteller, and dramatist

  2. Zora Neale Hurston was one of the most important and celebrated figures to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. • During this time, she was known as a play write and short story author. • Hurston also helped to found, with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman, a magazine for young writers called “Fire.”

  3. Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in America, was Zora Neale Hurston’s home and provided the inspiration to preserve her culture in many forms. Such forms include: folklore, short stories, and plays.

  4. Folklore • Folklore is the study of folklife. • Based on the picture below of Zora Neale Hurston dancing with the children, what do you think folklife means?

  5. Folklife • Folklife refers to the set of cultural practices or rituals, crafts, music, sayings and stories that people use to create a group identity. • Can you think of any cultural practices among a group of students in your school ?

  6. Folklife • Two of the cultural practices Zora Neale Hurston studied and documented were south African American songs and games. • Two of Hurston’s folklore collections include Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938). Activity

  7. Short Stories • Similarly to folklore, Zora Neale Hurston’s novels and short stories reflect her life experiences and research. • She made several field trips to her native Florida and the Caribbean to interview and document African American experiences during the 1920s. • Click here to listen to an interview with Wallace Quarterman in Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia in June 1935 (part 3 of 3). • Hurston is known most for her novels, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Moses: Man of the Mountain (1939). Activity

  8. Plays • Hurston wrote at least twenty plays between 1930 and 1935, and they are considered to be Hurston's favorite vehicle for transmitting cultural knowledge. • The plays were about Hurston's life experience, travels, research, and especially her study of folklore in the African-American South. • Some of her plays include: Meet the Mamma, Mule-bone: A Comedy of Negro Life, and Spunk. • As a class we will learn and perform Polk County.

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  10. When You Complete the Study Guide Questions: • Logout of your computer and return it to the computer cabinet. • Think about what group of people you plan to interview for your folklore. • Think about who and/or where you will collect a historical story from. • Write your ideas in your social studies journal. • Be prepared to share your ideas with the class.

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