Zora Neale Hurston bibliography
Zora Neale Hurston
bibliography
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books about zora
Awkward, Michael, editor. New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1990.
Baker, Houston A. Jr. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing. Chicago: Chicago University, 1991.
Bloom, Harold. Zora
Neale Hurston: Modern Critical Views Series. New York: Chelsea House, 1992.
Cronin, editor. Critical
Essays On Zora Neale Hurston. Macmillan Library Reference, 1997.
Davis, Rose Parkman. Zora
Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography And Reference Guide. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1997.
Fisher-Peters, Pearlie M. Assertive
Woman In Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction, Folklore, And Drama. Garland
Publishing,1999.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr, and K.A. Appiah, editors. Zora
Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present. New York: Amistad, 1991.
HarperTrade, 1993.
Glassman, Steve and Seidel, and Kathryn Lee, ed. Zora in Florida. Orlando: University of Central Florida, 1991.
Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Autobiography.
Alice Walker introduction. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1997, 1980.
Hill, Lynda Marion. Social
Rituals And The Verbal Art Of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Howard University,
1996.
Holloway, Karla. The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Howard, Lillie P. editor. Alice Walker And Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Howard, Lillie P. Zora Neale Hurston. Boston: Twayne Press, 1980. PS3515 U789 Z73
Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks On A
Road: An Autobiography. Henry Louis Gates editor, Maya Angelou foreward. New York:
HarperCollins, 1990, 1996. Macmillan Library Reference, 1997.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. Larry Neal introduction. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. PS3515.U789 Z5
Hurston, Zora Neale. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again When I
Am Looking Mean And Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader. Alice Walker editor, Mary
Helen Washington introduction.
Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, City University of New York, 1979, 1981.
Johnson, Yvonne. Voices
Of African American Women: The Use Of Narrative And Authorial Voice In The Works Of
Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker. Peter Lang Publishing,
1999.
Karanja, Ayana I. Zora
Neale Hurston: Breath Of Her Voice. Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.
Lester, Neal A. Understanding
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Student Casebook. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
John Lowe, Jump
At The Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy. 2nd Edition. Urbana: University
of Illinois, 1997.
Lyons, Mary E. Sorrow's Kitchen : The Life And Folklore Of Zora Neale Hurston. Scribner 1990. Turtleback Books, 1993.
McKissack, Pat C. and Frederick McKissack. Zora
Neale Hurston; Writer And Storyteller. Michael Bryant illustrator. Enslow
Publishers, 1992.
Meisenhelder, Susan Edwards. Hitting
A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick; Race And Gender In The Work Of Zora Neale Hurston.
Birmingham: University of Alabama, 1999.
Nathiri, N.Y., ed. Zora! Zora Neale Hurston: A Woman and her Community. Orlando: Sentinel Communications, 1991.
Newson, Adele S. Zora Neale Hurston: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987. PS3515 .U789 Z459
Pineapple, Dorothy I., editor. Zora
Neale Hurston Reader. Pineapple Press, 1992.
Plant, Deborah G. Every
Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy And Politics Of Zora Neale Hurston.
Champaign: University of Illinois, 1995.
Porter, A. P. and Zora Neale Hurston. Jump
At De Sun: The Story Of Zora Neale Hurston. Lerner Publishing Group, 1992.
Turner, Darwin T. In a Minor Chord: Three Afro-American Writers and Their Search for Identity. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP 1971. PS153 N5 T8
Trudier, Harris. Power
Of The Porch: The Storyteller's Craft In Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, And Randall
Kenan. University of Georgia, 1996.
Witcover, Paul. Zora
Neale Hurston: Author. Nathan I. Huggins editor. Coretta Scott King introduction.
New York: Chelsea House, 1991, 1992.
Yannuzzi, Della A. Zora
Neale Hurston: Southern Storyteller. Enslow Publishers, 1996.
Yates, Janelle. Zora Neale Hurston: A Storytellers Life. David
Adams illustrator. Ward Hill Press, 1995.
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articles about Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beardslee, Karen E. "Self-Actualization in Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 6.1 (Fall 1991): 56-.
Blickle, Peter. "Reading Zora's Eyes: Vision and Perspective in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 5.1 (Fall 1990): 1-.
Byrd, Rudolph P. "Shared Orientation and Narrative Acts in Cane, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Meridian." Melus 17.4 (Winter 1991): 41(16).
Carby, Hazel V. "The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston." New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God. Michael Awkward, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Dalgarno, Emily. "`Words Walking Without Masters': Ethnography and Creative Process in Their Eyes Were Watching God." American Literature 64.3 (Sep 1992): 519(23).
Davie, Sharon. "Free Mules, Talking Buzzards, and Cracked Plates: The Politics of Dislocation in Their Eyes Were Watching God." PMLA 108.3 (May 1993): 446(14).
Dean, Lance. "Remembering and Dismembering: The Isolating Powers of Creation in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 7.2 (Spring 1993): 1-.
duCille, Ann. "The Intricate Fabric of Feeling: Romance and Resistance in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.2 (Spring 1990): 1-.
Giles, James R. "The Significance of Time in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." NALF 6 (Sumr 1972): 52-53, 60.
Johnson, Lonnell. "The Defiant Black Heroine: Ollie Miss and Janie Mae- Two Portraits from the 30's." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.2 (Spring 1990): 41-.
Kubitschek, Missy D. "`Tuh de Horizon and Back': The Female Quest in Their Eyes Were Watching God." BALF 17.3 (Fall 1983): 109-15.
LeSeur, Geta. "Janie and Sisyphus: Existential Heroism in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.2 (Spring 1990): 33-.
Messent, Peter. "A Medley of Voices: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." New Readings of the American Novel: Narrative Theory and it's Application. London: Macmillan, 1990.
Welsh-Asante, Kariamu. "Dance as Metaphor in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.2 (Spring 1990): 18-.
Wilentz, Gay. "Defeating the False God: Janie's Search for Self-Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Self published, 1998.
Wolff, Maria T. "Listening and Living: Reading and Experience in Their Eyes Were Watching God." BALF 16.1 (Spring 1982): 29-33.
articles about Mules and Men
Baker, Houston A. Jr. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991. Chapter 2.
Boxwell, D.A. "Sis Cat as Ethnographer: Self-Presentation and Self-Inscription in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men." African American Review 26.4 (Winter 1992).
Dorst, John. "Rereading Mules and Men: Toward the Death of the Ethnographer." Cultural Anthropology 2 (1987).
Hernandez, Graciela. "Multiple Mediations in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men." Critique of Anthropology 13.4 (1993).
Smith, Theosphus H. Conjuring Culture: Biblical Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. chapter ?.
Staub, Michael E. Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. chapter ?.
Bush, Roland. "'Ethnographic Subjectivity' and Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 5.2 (Spring 1991): 11-.
Gordon, Deborah. "The Politics of Ethnographic Authority: Race and Writing in the Ethnography of Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston." Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text. Marc Manganaro, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Mikell, Gwendolyn. "When Horses Talk: Reflections on Zora Neale Hurston's Haitian Anthropology." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 5.2 (Spring 1991): 1-.
articles about Moses, Man of the Mountain
Boi, Paola. "Moses, Man of Power, Man of Knowledge: A Signifying Reading of Zora Neale Hurston (Between a Laugh and a Song)." Women and War: The Changing Status of American Women from the 1930s to the 1950s. Maria Dietrich and Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, ed. New York: Berg, 1990.
Smith, Theosphus H. Conjuring Culture: Biblical Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. chapter ?.
Byrd, Rudolph P. "Shared Orientation and Narrative Acts in Cane, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Meridian." Melus 17.4 (Winter 1991): 41(16).
Carby, Hazel V. "The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston." New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God. Michael Awkward, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Cobb-Moore, Geneva. "Zora Neale Hurston as Local Colorist." Southern Literary Journal 26.2 (Spring 1994): 25-.
Crosland, Andrew. "The Text of Zora Neale Hurston: A Caution." CLA Journal 37.4 (June 1994): 420-.
Dutton, Wendy. "The Problem of Invisibility: Voodoo and Zora Neale Hurston." Frontiers 13.2 (1992): 131-.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Myth and History: Discourse of Origins in Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou." BALF 24.2 (Summer 1990): 221-.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. "Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text." The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. chapter 5.
Harris, Trudier. "Our People, Our People." Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond. Lillie P. Howard, ed. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Hart, Denise. "Zora Neale Hurston and Eatonville: A Friendship of 100 Years." Poets & Writers Magazine 21.6 (Nov 1993): 32-.
Jacobson, Lynn. "The Mark of Zora: Zora Neale Hurston, that is. Theatregoers are Discovering the Pleasures of Her Company." American Theatre 7.4-5 (July 1990): 24-.
Johnson, Barbara. "Thresholds of Difference: Structures of Address in Zora Neale Hurston." 'Race,' Writing and Difference. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Johnson, Lonnell. "The Defiant Black Heroine: Ollie Miss and Janie Mae- Two Portraits from the 30's." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.2 (Spring 1990): 41-.
Jordan, June. "Notes Toward a Black Balancing of Love and Hatred." Civil Wars. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981; "On Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston." Black World 23 (August 1974).
Lupton, Mary J. "Zora Neale Hurston and the Survival of the Female." Southern Literary Journal 15 (Fall 1982): 45-54.
Mikell, Gwendolyn. "The Anthropological Imagination of Zora Neale Hurston." Western Journal of Black Studies 7.1 (1989).
Mikell, Gwendolyn. "Zora Neale Hurston." Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary. Ute Gacs, et al, ed. University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Navarro, Mary L., and Mary H. Sims. "Settling the Dust: Tracking Zora through Alice Walker's The Revenge of Hannah Kumhuff." Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond. Lillie P. Howard, ed. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Peters, Pearlie. "Women and Assertive Voice in Hurston's Fiction and Folklore." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 6.2 (Spring 1992): 11-.
Pryse, Marjorie. "Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and the Ancient Power of Black Women." Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction and Literary Tradition. Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Setterberg, Fred. "Zora Neale Hurston in the Land of 1,000 Dances." Georgia Review 46.4 (Winter 1992): 627(17).
Sollors, Werner. "Modernization as Adultery: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston and American Culture of the 1930s and 1940s." Hebrew University Studies In Literature 18 (1990): 109-.
Southerland, Ellease. "The Influence of Voodoo on the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston." Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature. Roseann P. Bell, Bettye J. Parker, and Beverly Guy-Seftall, ed. New York: Anchor, 1979.
Sundahl, Daniel J. "Zora Neale Hurston: A Voice of Her Own/An Entertainment in Herself." Southern Studies 1.3 (Fall 1990): 243-.
Thielke, Rosemary. "A Map of Zora's Florida." Zora Neale Hurston Forum 5.1 (Fa. 1990): 43-.
Turner, Darwin T. "Zora Neale Hurston: One More Time." Langston Hughes Review 11.2 (Fall 1992): 34-
Wald, Priscilla. "Becoming 'Colored': The Self-Authorized Language of Difference in Zora Neale Hurston." American Literary History 2.1 (Spring 1990): 79-.
Walker, Alice. "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston." Ms. (March 1975): 74-79, 85-89.
Wall, Cheryl A. "Zora Neale Hurston's Travelling Blues." Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. chapter 4.
Wallace, Michelle. "Who Owns Zora Neale Hurston: Critics Carve Up the Legend." Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory. London: Verso, 1990; Village Voice (April 1988).
Willis, Susan. "Wandering - Zora Neale Hurston's Search for Self and Method." Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. London: Routledge, 1990. chapter 2.
Williams, Donna M. "Our Love/Hate Relationship with Zora Neale Hurston." Black Collegian 24.3 (Jan 1994): 86-.
Wilentz, Gay. "Black Artist and White Patron: The Correspondance of Fannie Hurst & Zora Neale Hurston." Unknown.
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all known cataloging information has been included
for research convenience. special thanks to Alasdair Pettinger of Scotland for the
expanded listings.
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