... is the author/anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston. Hurston is one of few African American women recognized for their work during the 20th century and she is one of the greatest writers/anthropologists during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. Hurston is mostly known for her book Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, but her first work was her 1934 publication of Jonah's Gourd Vine, and ... she published two more works before the release of her most famous work Their Eyes Were Watching God and in all Hurston wrote four novels and two books of folklore. Most of Hurston ... 's stor...

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... homeland, and the deep cultural cleft between Black and White America. The movement was instrumental in the founding of the African Republic of Liberia where nearly 13,000 blacks were settled in their homeland (Collier, 1985). Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. Claude McKay's volume of ... relatively little racial discrimination there. Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hursto...

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