https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource_type/audio/Recent content in Audio on Zora Neale HurstonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThe Official Website of Zora Neale HurstonFri, 04 May 2018 16:38:30 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/interview-with-deborah-g.-plant-editor-of-barracoon/Fri, 04 May 2018 16:38:30 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/interview-with-deborah-g.-plant-editor-of-barracoon/https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-barracoon/Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:13:43 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-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/resource/reading-their-eyes-were-watching-god/Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:13:43 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-their-eyes-were-watching-god/When first published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman was generally dismissed by male reviewers. Out of print for almost thirty years, but since its reissue in paperback edition by the University of Illionois Press in 1978, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. With haunting sympathy and piercing immediacy, Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford’s evolving selfhood through three marriages.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-every-tongue-got-to-confess/Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:10:07 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-every-tongue-got-to-confess/African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston’s first love. Collected in the late 1920s, Every Tongue Got to Confess is the third volume of folk-tales from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It is published here for the first time. These hilarious, bittersweet, often saucy folk-tales – some of which date back to the Civil War – provide a fascinating, verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-mules-and-men/Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:24:06 -0500https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-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.