ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Publicado por primeira vez em 1937, um dos livros mais celebrados de Zora Neale Hurston, é hoje considerado unanimemente pola crítica um clássico da literatura afroamericana e o romance pioneiro no tratamento literario do preto como um ser humano completo, complexo e nom diminuido. E a historia de Janie Mae Crawford, heroina deste romance, simbolo privilegiado da negritude feminina.Traducçom do ingles de Elvira Souto.

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . .When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before she finally meets the man of her dreams - who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds.Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more - Zadie Smith Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White The Collected Stories of Grace Paley Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West Their Eyes Were Watching God

Cover design by Harlem renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds ...''For me, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more'' Zadie Smith ''One of the greatest writers of our time'' Toni Morrison

The Mule-Bone, written by renowned African American poet Langston Hughes, is a satirical play that engages the complexities of race relations and the significance of the cultural heritage of African Americans in the early 20th century. The play follows two friends, Dave and Bones, who enter into a heated debate about which one of them will be able to buy a mule at an auction.

* Zora Neale Hurstons masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nations history. Hurston was there to record Cudjos firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjos pastmemories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjos unique vernacular, and written from Hurstons perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

Materias: Ficción y temas afines Editorial: Universidad de León

This vibrant first novel by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential African-American writers, is reissued with a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston revealing the historical Herod the Great not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure In the 1950s after the publication of Moses Man of the Mountain Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the life of one of the most well known Biblical figures Herod the Great reimagining him in a very different light than his villainous portrayal in the New Testament In Hurston s retelling Herod is a forerunner of Christ a religious and philosophical man who enriched Jewish culture and lived a life of adventure From the peaks of triumph to the depths of human misery the historical Herod seemed to have been singled out by some deity and especially endowed to attract the zigzag lightning of fate Hurston writes An intimate of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar the Judean king lived in a time of war and imperial expansion that was rife with political assassinations and bribery as the old world gave way to the new Setting him within this vivid colorful world little known to modern readers Hurston s unfinished manuscript brings this complex compelling and misunderstood leader fully into focus Scholar and litera

Nesse trabalho fundamental da autora de Seus olhos viam Deus, Olualê Kossola: As palavras o último homem negro escravizado traz o poderoso relato de um dos últimos sobreviventes do tráfico atlântico

En 1927, la jeune anthropologue rencontre en Alabama Cudjo Lewis, qui, à 86 ans, était l'ultime survivant du dernier convoi négrier ayant quitté les côtes du Dahomey pour l'Amérique. Après avoir recu