Despite its profound position, the novel Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston has been challenged of its place in high school student's education by parents and educational groups. ... Furthermore, Hurston writes about segregation, even within the black society. ... Hurston weighs a great emphasis in identity and love through the use of language. ... She called in her soul to come and see" (Hurston 443). ... Inevitably, the explicit manner in which Hurston writes with becomes on objection. ...

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Polk County in the Nation's Capitol The premier of Zora Neale Hurston's play, Polk County, at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. was Friday the 29th of March. Zora Neale Hurston was an excellent writer African-American literature and a playwright. ... Growing up, Zora Neale Hurston experienced separate but equal politics of Eatonville. ...

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Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. ... Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as to be the most important African American writer who wrote before World War II. ...

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DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, accompanied by the writings of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black rural south to create a brilliant study of race and gender in which a woman finds her true identity. ...

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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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African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch ...

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The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African-American arts, with middle and upper-class blacks as the dominant leaders. Poetry has never celebrated pride in African-American culture more than that period in the 20"s. The reasons behind the outburst of artists, ways in which the written word w...

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Zora Neale Hurston was not a poet but an African American novelist, traveled around the South in her old car collecting stories, songs, and prayers of black southerners which she published in the book Mules and Men. ...

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The Harlem Renaissance was a movement originating in Harlem New York in the 1920s. Many African- American poets such as Langston Hughes found their place in this movement. Sidney Bremer's Home in Harlem, New York: Lessons from the Harlem Renaissance Writers, Jon Michael Spencer's The Black Church an...

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