A selective list of literary criticism for the American novelist, autobiographer, and fokelorist, Harlem-Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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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." Graduate student paper, September 2000, at womenwriters.net (online journal)
Davis, Doris. "'De Talkin' Game': The Creation of Psychic Space in Selected Short Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston." [Criticism and interpretation, African American women in literature, Voice in literature]. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26, 2 (Fall 2007)
Emery, Amy Fass. "The Zombie in/as the text: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse." [narrative voice, treatment of voodoo]. African American Review, Fall, 2005
Heard, Matthew. "Dancing is dancing no matter who is doing it": Zora Neale Hurston, literacy, and contemporary writing pedagogy. College Literature, 01-JAN-07
Hoffman-Jeep, Lynda. "Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera," African American Review, Fall, 2005
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
Weathers, Glenda B. "Biblical trees, biblical deliverance: literary landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison." African American Review, Spring-Summer, 2005
Transcript of a scholarly discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God. June 29, 1997, participants Marilyn Atlas, Edgar Whan, and Annette Oxindine
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities [Feminist and Women's Studies]
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
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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