American Literature / Unit 13 AML 1218 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Zora Neale Hurston: Anthropologist and Novelist
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The idea
Raised in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-Black towns, Hurston lost her mother young, moved among relatives, and worked her way to Howard and then to anthropology. She collected folklore in the South and the Caribbean and wrote fiction from it.
In practice
An anthropologist collecting her own people.
Where people slip
The fieldwork and the fiction are one project.
Your place on the trail
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