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A 9 page paper on the novel by early twentieth century author Zora Neale Hurston. The paper argues that Hurston's fiction techniques were ultimately derived from the modernism she learned while she was the only Black student at Barnard in the 1920s, and this colored both her fictional techniques and her interaction with white people from then on. Bibliography lists 9 sources including book.
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File: D0_Zora.rtf
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in the Harlem Renaissance, giving joyous expression to the cult of the "New Negro". And amazingly, because of both her brilliance and her open, joyous personality, she was able to
work both circles concurrently. It would be most unlikely that such an exposure would not affect her fiction; this paper will argue that it did. Because of Zora Hurstons collegiate
exposures and literary accomplishments, she undoubtedly read modernist literature, and strong strains of modernism are traceable in her fiction, particularly her 1937 masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Moreover, this
paper will postulate that Zora Hurston spent much of her career trying to share the joy of black experience, not with a black audience, but with a white one. According
to Robert Hemenways definitive Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography, Zoras father was a clergyman and a three-term mayor of the small, all-black township of Eatonville, Florida. There was never
an abundance of money in the Hurston household, but there was obviously never a shortage of initiative, either. Zora quit school very young to join a traveling theater company, but
soon resolved to resume her education and paid her way through high school at the Morgan Academy in Baltimore. Graduation from Morgan was followed by acceptance at all-black Howard University.
She received an associates degree from Howard, which did not benefit her in any material way; following her college graduation, she worked as a manicurist, a waitress, and a maid.
During this period, however, she published her first short story and began to actively court the attention of other writers of both races. Her ambition paid off first when
she was offered the job as personal secretary to white novelist Fannie Hurst, and a year later when Zora was awarded the unprecedented honor of a scholarship to all-white Barnard
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