Zora Neale Hurston's final decade / Virginia Lynn Moylan.
2011
PS3515.U789 Z788 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Zora Neale Hurston's final decade / Virginia Lynn Moylan.
Author
Moylan, Virginia Lynn.
ISBN
9780813035789
0813035783
0813035783
Imprint
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2011.
Language
English
Description
193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS3515.U789 Z788 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52 B
Summary
From Publishers Weekly: Moylan's goal-"to freshly interpret" Zora Neale Hurston's tumultuous final decade, rocked by scandal and the author's controversial political views-is ill-met by this well-intentioned but clunky biography. Moylan, founding member of the Fort Pierce, Fla., Annual Zora Festival, draws heavily on two texts (Valerie Boyd's biography Wrapped in Rainbows, and Carla Kaplan's edition of Hurston's letters, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters), supplemented by a number of interviews with the employers, acquaintances, and friends of Hurston's last decade. After a brief biographical sketch of Hurston's early years, Moylan addresses, in term-paperish prose, the false child molestation charges that, even after they were recanted, left Hurston's reputation in tatters, and her very controversial (in Moylan's words, "eccentric") objections to Brown v. Board of Education and desegregation on the grounds that, in her perspective, "racial uplift" would come by individual effort alone. Hurston's final creative projects-her development of an "anthropologically correct" black baby doll and planned biography of King Herod attest to how the famously idiosyncratic and iconoclastic writer remained deeply unpredictable and fascinating, and that her "lost years" merit a thoughtful and thorough biography. Unfortunately, this meandering, amateurish account isn't it.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Zora Neale Hurston: a biographical sketch, 1891-1948
In hell's basement: Harlem, 1948-1949
Sunshine and Southern politics: Miami, 1950
Sara Creech and her beautiful doll: Belle Glade, 1950-1951
Herod the sun-like splendor: Eau Gallie, 1951-1956
Death on the Suwannee: Live Oak, 1952-1953
Crisis in Dixie: Eau Gallie, 1954-1956
Last horizon: Fort Pierce, 1956-1960
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
Zora Neale Hurston: a biographical sketch, 1891-1948
In hell's basement: Harlem, 1948-1949
Sunshine and Southern politics: Miami, 1950
Sara Creech and her beautiful doll: Belle Glade, 1950-1951
Herod the sun-like splendor: Eau Gallie, 1951-1956
Death on the Suwannee: Live Oak, 1952-1953
Crisis in Dixie: Eau Gallie, 1954-1956
Last horizon: Fort Pierce, 1956-1960
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.