Ineu Sri Wahyuni
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SLIGHT THING ABOUT ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Zora Neale Hurston is a Black American novelist, folklorist, short story writer, dramatist, anthropologist, and autobiographer.
Hurston is reputed one of the famous writer in Harlem Renaissance, a literature movement and statistic in Harlem New York. Hurston was born on 7 of January 1891. She was grown up in Eatonville, Florida which was the first incorporated in American and became setting’s place of whole Hurston’s fiction. According to Robert Wayne, (2002: 42), Eatonville is the setting for many of Hurston’s stories and novel. Eatonville just north of Orlado was the first incorporated African town in the US (1886). Hurston moved there with her family in 1894, her father was elected mayor three times (first in 1897). Although Hurston left Eatonville after her mother’s death in 1904, she returns the town many times in her life, not notably on her trips to collect folklore. In her introduction to Mules and Men, she describes the town of as “a city of lakes, three croquet zourts, three hundred brown skins, three hundred good swimmers, plenty guavas, two schools and no-jail house”.
Differ with the statement above, Renée H. Shea and Deborah L. Wilchek, (3). Zora was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston was the fifth of eight children of John and Lucy Ann Potts Hurston. When she was a toddler, her family moved to Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black township in the United States. Young Zora saw Eatonville as a kind of utopia that the writer later glorified in her fiction.
Continuing with statement above, between 1918 and 1924, that sometimes she took course at Howard University. Hurston was successfully in her short story and published in New York. She graduated from Bernard College in 1928. She studied anthropology in Bernard College and Columbia University with the famous anthropologist Franz Boas. There were two books that published that contains about short story, folklore and anthropology are “Mules and Men” (1935) and “Tell Me My House” (1938) both of them contained with the culture of Caribbean. When living in Caribbean Hurston completed her novel with title “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937). After graduated in 1928, she is continuing her studied postgraduate in Columbia University. Hurston’s writing of dialect respect in her research and represents the speech partner and pronunciations. While 1930, Hurston worked on musical production, she collected folklore, and she collaborated with Langston Hughes on a play “Mule Bone” (A comedy Negro Life), but happens some disputed with him before producing. In her autobiography “Dust Tracks on a Road” (1942), Hurston uttering the altitude on relationship of race in America. She explained the black artist would celebrate the positive aspect of Black American. Hurston was soon writing article and magazines. In 1948, Hurston was accused of a crime that she not done it. Then she was disappeared from public view. In remaining of her life she was a librarian, a journalist, and a substitute teacher. Hurston died in 1960, in line with Smooph opinion, (1959:5), Hurston suffered a stroke, with no money or connection, she was forced to accept public assistance and moved into the St. Lucie County Welfare Home in Florida. On 28 January 1960, view weeks after her 69 birthday Hurston died of hearth disease at the welfare home.
Continuing with the declaration above, American writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston is known for her interpretations of African American folktales and for her novels focusing on southern black culture in the United States. Her novel Their Eyes Were Watching
Summary
Zora is an American writer in Harlem Renaissance. Her autobiography, novel, short story, and folklore were famous. She has a successful woman at that time. She well educated woman. Zora was poor before her death.