Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West.

By:

Hurston, Zora Neale

Contributor(s):

West, Genevieve

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.Edition: 1st edDescription: xliii, 252 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780062915795 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston--the sole black student at the college--was living in New York, "desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world." During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.

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In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston--the sole black student at the college--was living in New York, "desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world." During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.

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