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Comprend les noms: Lucy Hurston

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Nom canonique
Hurston, Lucy
Nom légal
Hurston, Lucy Anne
Date de naissance
1957
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
Manchester, Connecticut, USA
Professions
sociology professor
Relations
Hurston, Zora Neale (aunt)

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Review by George Geder

Lucy Anne Hurston certainly did her famous Aunt proud in what she calls "… the first collaborative family-sanctioned project on the life and legend of Zora Neale Hurston…"

My neighborhood independent bookstore had a copy laying sideways on the biography shelf. Shrink-wrapped, I couldn't wait to get home listen to the accompanying CD full of interviews and Zora singing.

If that weren't enough, there are a ton of pull-out reproductions of letters, cards, scraps of notes and poems and other textural artifacts. There is so much information packed between the 36 pages, it's overwhelming.

Every page has a photograph of Zora, people important to her, or her family including an 1893 portrait of her parents.

There's inserts galore! How about a 1920 map of Eatonville; a reproduction of the 1921 Howard University magazine 'The Stylus with her first published story 'John Redding Goes To Sea', or a handwritten draft of the first chapter of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' or a typed letter from Zora to DR. W.E. Du Bois? Wow!

The first 11 tracks on the CD feature interviews by Mary Margaret McBride on WEAF Radio, January 25, 1943 [WEAF became WNBC of New York City in 1946]. Tracks 12-25 are folk songs collected and sung by Zora Neale Hurston for the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the WPA and Library of Congress- recorded in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 18, 1939. What an educational treat!

Then there's the text. In a four engine locomotive train, Lucy Anne Hurston's prose is the second engine pushing Zora's leading words and notions into the heart and consciousness of the reader. Competing effectively, and complementary to the photos, inserts and CD, she gives us a compelling and literate insight into her Auntie.

If you are a scrapbooking genealogist, historian, anthropologist, or just love a good biography, this book will not disappoint. If you think you've read everything on, from and about Zora Neale Hurston there even some never-before-published poems. And remember….

SPEAK, SO YOU CAN SPEAK AGAIN

Peace,
"Guided by the Ancestors"
http://geder.wordpress.com
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Signalé
Geder | Feb 4, 2007 |

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Œuvres
1
Membres
94
Popularité
#199,202
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
1
ISBN
1

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