A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Zora Neale Hurston, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Daley, Christine. A Rocky Road to Posterity: The Publication of Zora Neale Hurston A reception study of Zora Neale Hurston. "Hurston, a controversial figure in her own time, has proved to be a touchstone of modern reception of both African-American literature and unconventional writing by women." By graduate student Daley, September 2000, at the online journal womenwriters.net
Howard, Lillie P. Biographical essay on Zora Neale Hurston from Gale Publishers
Jackson, Chuck. Waste and Whiteness: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Eugenics. On Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), "Gilded Six-Bits" (1933), and "Sweat" (1926) African American Review, Winter, 2000
Johnson, Maria V. "'The world in a jug and the stopper in hand': 'Their Eyes' as blues performance - her - novel entitled 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,'by Zora Neale Hurston," African American Review, Fall, 1998
Johnson, Yvonne. An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston from the Literary Encyclopedia, 04 March 2005
Karanja, Ayana. A review of Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice (Lang, 1999) African American Review, Spring, 2002. Reviewed by Deborah G. Plant
Trefzer, Annette. "Possessing the Self: Caribbean Identities in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse," in African American Review, Summer, 2000
Trombold, John. "The Minstrel Show Goes to the Great War: Zora Neale Hurston's Mass Cultural Other," MELUS, Spring, 1999
Wall, Cheryl A. (ed.) A review of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) African American Review, Winter, 2001. Reviewed by Daylanne K. English
Transcript of a scholarly discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God. June 29, 1997, participants Marilyn Atlas, Edgar Whan, and Annette Oxindine
Search Findarticles.com to find additional signed articles on Zora Neale Hurston. (One of the most annoying features on the findarticles web site can be overcome by turning off your computer's speakers.)
A profile of Zora Neale Hurston from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library
Presentation on Zora Neale Hurston from the Library of Congress incudes a Hurston timeline, photos of Hurston, and scanned images of several of her plays
An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston from Voices From the Gaps, Women Writers of Color, a web project at the Univ. of Minnesota
A primary and secondary bibliography for Zora Neale Hurston, with brief biography and a few discussion questions from Dr. Paul Reuben's PAL web site
Croft, Robert W. A Zora Neale Hurston Companion
Teachers resources for Their Eyes Were Watching God created by C-Span for their 2002 American Writers II series
A guide for teaching Zora Neale Hurston from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
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