American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1711 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Walker and the Recovery of Hurston
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The idea
The anchor names one of Walker's recurring commitments as acknowledging the contributions of under-appreciated African American writers, Zora Neale Hurston among them. Her nineteen eighty-three essay collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is the book where that argument is made.
In practice
A living writer restoring a dead one.
Where people slip
Hurston had gone out of print before this.
Your place on the trail
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