Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" embodies some aspects that are found in Walker's and Marshall's essays. ... Then these themes will be drawn out of Hurston's work to show the similarity between each of these writers' works. ... They both refer to great writers such as Zora Neale Hurston or Phillis Wheatley. ... Hurston's story embodies some of the aspects of identification that are seen in Walker's and Marshall's works. ... It is only decades later that Walker identifies herself with Hurston and she sees Hurston as one of those great unknown women who ...

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Du Bois (Sociologist, Civil Rights activist, writer, and editor), Duke Ellington (Big Band Musician, composer, pianist), Bessie Smith (American blues singer and songwriter), Zora Neale Hurston (American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist), and of course Langston Hughes, along with many many more. Hughes, Hurston, and other writers founded a literary journal named Fire!. ...

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