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Feb 15, 2018 leynes rated it really liked information technology

Alice Walker's 1975 commodity, originally published in Ms. magazine and reprinted in the collection In Search of Our Mother's Gardens (1983), follows the author on a journey through Eatonville, FL to find the unmarked grave of Zora Neale Hurston. At the time, Hurston had fallen out of popularity and died in a welfare habitation. A collection was taken up for her burial and her grave sat unmarked in a run-downwardly cemetery.

Walker, pretending to exist Hurston'south niece, is accompanied past Charlotte Hunt, who is re

Alice Walker'southward 1975 commodity, originally published in Ms. mag and reprinted in the collection In Search of Our Female parent'due south Gardens (1983), follows the author on a journey through Eatonville, FL to discover the unmarked grave of Zora Neale Hurston. At the time, Hurston had fallen out of popularity and died in a welfare dwelling. A drove was taken upward for her burial and her grave sat unmarked in a run-downwards cemetery.

Walker, pretending to be Hurston's niece, is accompanied by Charlotte Hunt, who is researching Hurston. Of the ruse Walker writes: "as far as I'm concerned, she is my aunt – and that of all black people as well." Walker eventually finds the grave and buys a small marker for information technology; all the while she interviews people of Eatonville for any information almost Hurston'southward life. The commodity is interspersed with excerpts from Hurston'due south writing, as well as quotes from articles about her and her work.

"We are a people. A people practise non throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, information technology is our duty as artists and every bit witnesses for the time to come to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, os by bone." - Alice on Zora

After the publication of the essay, interest in Hurston's work revived. The renewal of attending to Hurston was related also to the ascent of new African-American authors such as Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison, whose works are centered on African-American experiences and include, but do non necessarily focus upon, racial struggle.

Hurston was an influential writer in the Harlem Renaissance, but most of her work was out of print by the time she died in 1960. She was a forgotten writer until Alice Walker reached through the mists of time, blew the dust abroad from the covers, and re-introduced Hurston's work into American literature.

It'south crazy that Zora's legacy wouldn't be what information technology is today without the piece of work of Alice. My deepest respect goes out to both of these women. (And how awesome is it that Alice actually documented her journey in this marvelous essay? I mean, what more than could yous want? Go read it!)

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This is an incredible slice. The importance of Alice Walker'due south work in bringing Zora Neale Hurston dorsum into the catechism cannot exist overstated. Walker writes of the experience of finding Hurston'due south unmarked grave with such incredible imagery and heart that it'southward impossible not to get emotional.

Interesting to hear that the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God was virtually unknown before Walker published this.

February 19, 2019 Kately Rivero rated it actually liked it

Alice Walker writes about Zora Neale Hurston with such reverence that I was left wanting to option up one of her works. It also has me wanting to pick up the famed The Colour Majestic for some more Alice Walker.

Sep 15, 2019 Caroline rated it really liked it

deeply moving and thoughtful, and it makes me terribly sad

Alice Walker, one of the United States' preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Colour Regal, which also won the National Book Award. Her other books include The 3rd Life of Grange Copeland, Elevation, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessi Alice Walker, one of the United States' preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Colour Imperial, which too won the National Volume Award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Hush-hush of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to accost issues of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.
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