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Author: Elisabeth Adam Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638873765 Category : Literary Collections Languages : de Pages : 14
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Veranstaltung: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zora Neale Hurston lebte von 1891-1960 und war eine der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Autoren. Noch heute gelten ihre Werke als einzigartig. Sie beschrieb in ihren Arbeiten die afroamerikanische Kultur, das alltägliche Leben, die Träume, Wünsche und Ängste der Schwarzen in Amerika. Auch Hurston selbst zählt bis heute zu den wichtigsten kulturellen Vertretern ihrer Zeit. Einen besonders hohen Stellenwert genoss sie in der Zeit der Harlem Renaissance, einer Bewegung der 20er Jahre in Amerika, die das kulturelle Leben der Afroamerikaner veränderte. Da Hurston selbst aus den Südstaaten Amerikas stammte, verstand sie es wie kein Zweiter das black life zu beschreiben. Ihre Herkunft wurde Grundlage vieler ihrer Werke färbte ihre Ansicht des Lebens in Amerika. Hurston wurde oft als produktivste afroamerikanische Autorin Amerikas beschrieben. Hurstons Lebenswerk beinhaltet vier Romane, zwei Folkloresammlungen, zwei Schauspiele und eine Autobiographie. Außerdem schrieb sie zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten und veröffentlichte viele Artikel in verschiedenen Zeitschriften. Mit dieser Arbeit soll Zora Neale Hurstons besonderer Stellenwert herausgearbeitet werden. Zunächst wird dafür in einer biographischen Darstellung ihre allgemeine Bedeutung, danach ihre besondere Bedeutung für die Harlem Renaissance beschrieben. Als drittes und eigentliches Thema soll Hurstons Verständnis der afroamerikanischen Identität erläutert und dieses an drei Beispielen ihrer Werke deutlich gemacht werden.
Author: Elisabeth Adam Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638873765 Category : Literary Collections Languages : de Pages : 14
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Veranstaltung: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zora Neale Hurston lebte von 1891-1960 und war eine der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Autoren. Noch heute gelten ihre Werke als einzigartig. Sie beschrieb in ihren Arbeiten die afroamerikanische Kultur, das alltägliche Leben, die Träume, Wünsche und Ängste der Schwarzen in Amerika. Auch Hurston selbst zählt bis heute zu den wichtigsten kulturellen Vertretern ihrer Zeit. Einen besonders hohen Stellenwert genoss sie in der Zeit der Harlem Renaissance, einer Bewegung der 20er Jahre in Amerika, die das kulturelle Leben der Afroamerikaner veränderte. Da Hurston selbst aus den Südstaaten Amerikas stammte, verstand sie es wie kein Zweiter das black life zu beschreiben. Ihre Herkunft wurde Grundlage vieler ihrer Werke färbte ihre Ansicht des Lebens in Amerika. Hurston wurde oft als produktivste afroamerikanische Autorin Amerikas beschrieben. Hurstons Lebenswerk beinhaltet vier Romane, zwei Folkloresammlungen, zwei Schauspiele und eine Autobiographie. Außerdem schrieb sie zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten und veröffentlichte viele Artikel in verschiedenen Zeitschriften. Mit dieser Arbeit soll Zora Neale Hurstons besonderer Stellenwert herausgearbeitet werden. Zunächst wird dafür in einer biographischen Darstellung ihre allgemeine Bedeutung, danach ihre besondere Bedeutung für die Harlem Renaissance beschrieben. Als drittes und eigentliches Thema soll Hurstons Verständnis der afroamerikanischen Identität erläutert und dieses an drei Beispielen ihrer Werke deutlich gemacht werden.
Author: Janet Witalec Publisher: Gale Cengage ISBN: Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 712
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Presents writings by and criticism on seventeen Harlem Renaissance authors, including Claude McKay and Jean Toomer. This volume covers I-Z.
Author: Charles River Charles River Editors Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781987483284 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." - Zora Neale Hurston The Great Migration was the name coined for the mass movement of African-Americans north of the Mason-Dixon line in the years following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The enormous promise of emancipation proved to be illusory for the majority of Southern blacks, whether free or formerly enslaved, and as a result, hundreds of thousand made use of their fundamental freedom to leave. This resulted in a "push" away from the South, caused by ongoing discrimination, entrenched Jim Crow laws, and increasing violence directed at blacks by whites. This was largely a movement driven by unreconciled whites who were apt to remind blacks that while slavery might have ended, equality should not be expected in its place. At the same time, another aspect was the "pull" towards seemingly greater opportunities available in the North. There were many reasons for this, but mainly it had to do with the massive industrial stimulus brought about by World War I. While the United States may not have been directly engaged in the war, the nation's industrial resources certainly were. Initially, the jobs created by this surge in industrialization were not available to blacks because of union restrictions intended to protect white labor, but when the war broke out in Europe in 1914, this changed dramatically. European immigration to the United States evaporated almost overnight, creating an immediate labor vacuum in the United States, and although this did not mollify restive white labor unions, it nonetheless created a surge in opportunities for blacks. Generally, the Great Migration is defined as having occurred between 1916 and 1970, during which time some 6 million African-Americans left the South for various northern states, not only primarily in the Northeast, but also in large numbers to the Midwest and the West. The First Great Migration, which took place mainly between 1916 and 1930, would bring about the Harlem Renaissance. The Second Great Migration, of course, occurred due to a similar industrialization that took place between 1940 and 1970. The figure typically cited for the First Great Migration is 1.6 million, and the phenomenon was ended temporarily mainly by the Great Depression, which reduced opportunities in the North considerably and made rural lifestyles more preferable for a time. The main centers of black migration during the first wave were not only the industrial cities in the Northeast, mainly New York and Philadelphia, but also Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland and Chicago, among others. Indeed, the African-American population in New York in particular exploded during this period, from about 140,000 in 1910 to upwards of 650,000 by 1940. In Philadelphia, during the same period, the black population increased by almost 230,000, and Chicago had an even bigger increase. This migration, multi-faceted and multi-directional, found its principal cultural focus in New York City, most notably in Harlem. While many of these opportunities were made possible thanks to the work of Philip Payton, Jr., a prominent black businessman and real estate developer, no two historians will agree on the exact origins of the Harlem Renaissance, and there are few that are able to categorically agree on what the phenomenon actually represented. What is inescapable, however, is that a black cultural movement coalesced spontaneously in that area of uptown Manhattan. The Harlem Renaissance: The History and Legacy of Early 20th Century America's Most Influential Cultural Movement examines the events and works that occurred in and around Harlem, and how they affected the world at large.
Author: Christina Gieseler Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640600002 Category : Other (Philosophy) in literature Languages : en Pages : 73
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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Hawai'i Pacific University, course: 20th Century Women Writers of Color, language: English, abstract: Nora Zeale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" can be considered "one of the sexiest, most 'healthily' rendered heterosexual love stories in our literature" (Walker, "Zora Neale Hurston" 88). This paper provides information about the outer contexts of the novel, as well as inductive analyses of the novel. The first part of the paper (Ch. 2-5) reveals information about the author and the historical and literary context of the time in which Hurston's novel was published. The second part of the paper (Ch. 6-7) starts off with an analysis of the plot and characters of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and then focuses on the theme of Otherness as it occurs in Huston's novel. The examinations of the concept of "Otherness", alongside with other terms such as "Dichotomization" and "Stigma", will be based on the concepts that Rosenblum and Travis describe in their work The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class and Sexual Orientation.
Author: Natalie Lewis Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638268977 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 19
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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), Free University of Berlin (JFK-Institute), course: Hauptseminar: Humor in Women's Literature, language: English, abstract: The Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s, also refered to as New Negro Renaissance, marked the first time that black literature and arts were seriously recognized by American publishers, critics and intellectuals. Participants in the movement attempted to refute the negative racist stereotypes of black life deeply imbedded in white popular as well as high culture. In a time when many black middle class intellectuals shamefully distanced themselves from their cultural heritage, artists of the Harlem Renaissance showed a strong sense of racial pride in exploring the African and Southern roots of black experience and experimenting with elements of traditional African American folk culture in different genres. One of the most significant figures emerging from this literary period was the anthropologist and fiction writer Zora Neale Hurston. After her college education, she engaged in extensive anthropological field research on rural black tradition in her all-black hometown Eatonville in Florida as well as the Carribean region and published the collected tales, sermons, songs and jokes in f olklore collections, e.g. Mules and Men. As a novelist, she made use of her extensive knowledge of African American Southern rural dialect and oral culture by texualizing it in the dialogues of her fictional characters. Zora Neale Hurston was one of the first black writers to give an acurate depiction of African American humor. She demonstrated that humor is a crucial element of speech within the black community not only for establishing communal bonds through laughter but also because it plays an important role in the assertion of one’s voice. Hurston’s second and best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God focuses on the black woman’s place in society. The protagonist and story-teller Janie presents her quest for self-fulfillment and struggle against ve rbal oppression, over two decades and three marital relationships; as she gains experience by experimenting with different roles, she learns how to assert her voice within the community and to humor life.
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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This story begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy's affection. An argument breaks out between two men, and Jim picks up a hock bone from a mule and knocks Dave out. Because of that Jim gets arrested and is held for trial in Joe Clarke's barn. When the trial begins the townspeople are divided along religious lines: Jim's Methodist supporters sit on one side of the church, Dave's Baptist supporters on the other. The issue to be decided at the trial is whether or not Jim has committed a crime.
Author: Christoph Ruffing Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640546075 Category : Languages : en Pages : 29
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 13, Saarland University (Philosophische Fakultät II: Fachrichtung 4.3.: Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen), course: Proseminar "Harlem Renaissance", language: English, abstract: Langston Hughes, probably the most famous of all Harlem Renaissance writers, played an very important role in Richard Bruce Nugent ́s life, especially in regard to his career as an artist. He introduced him to Harlem ́s artistic circles; through Hughes, Nugent made acquaintance with many contemporary luminaries, was introduced to the movement ́s elite (Wirth, 4). Hughes, amongst others, an temporary inhabitant of "Niggeratti manor" and also directly involved in the creation of Fire!!, made the following remark about the Niggeratti ́s landmark publication (Wirth, 15): None of the older Negro intellectuals would have anything to do with Fire [sic]. Dr. Du Bois in the Crisis roasted it. The negro press called it all sorts of bad names, largely because of a green and purple story by Bruce Nugent, in the Oscar Wilde tradition, which we had included. (Wirth, 83, emphasis added) Hughes quintessential statement about Fire!! clearly places the responsibility for the reception of the magazine on Nugent. But did Fire!!/Smoke, Lilies and Jade really have such a negative impact on the black community? Is it due to the fact, that Nugent ́s short story stands in the Oscar Wilde tradition? In how far does it actually stand in the Oscar Wilde tradition? In order to fully comprehend the statement by Hughes, these questions need to be answered. Thus, I will point out the consequences of the publication of Fire!! with special regard to Nugent ́s short story. In doing so, I will arrange the paper starting from the quotation above. Hence, I will first explain the components of the quote, meaning to give an definition of the Oscar Wilde tradition, as well as some background information and contextualizaing Fire!!; mo
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061749877 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 372
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Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.
Author: Elisabeth Adam
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