https://www.zoranealehurston.com/genre/nonfiction/Recent content in Nonfiction on Zora Neale HurstonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThe Official Website of Zora Neale HurstonFri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/you-don-t-know-us-negroes-and-other-essays/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/you-don-t-know-us-negroes-and-other-essays/A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/barracoon/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:49:06 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/barracoon/In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/mules-and-men/Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:34:09 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/mules-and-men/Mules and Men is the first great collection of black America’s folk world. In the 1930’s, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her “native village” of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, which she remembered hearing as a child. In her quest, she found herself and her history throughout these highly metaphorical folk-tales, “big old lies,” and the lyrical language of song.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/dust-tracks-on-a-road/Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:33:53 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/dust-tracks-on-a-road/First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston’s very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life—public and private—of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/tell-my-horse/Sun, 25 Feb 1990 05:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/books/tell-my-horse/As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest.