LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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It was home to the Harlem Renaissance.
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Most of its inhabitants worked for White people.
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It was primarily African American.
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It was destroyed after the Civil War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When she was three, her family moved to Eatonville, Florida. In 1887, it was one of the first all-Black towns incorporated in the United States. Hurston said that Eatonville was “home” to her, as she was so young when she moved there. Sometimes she claimed it as her birthplace.
Detailed explanation-2: -Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-black town in the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eatonville was also the childhood home of author, anthropologist, and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston’s upbringing in Eatonville shaped the questions and perspectives she brought to her literary work and research.
Detailed explanation-4: -Zora Neale Hurston not only stands as the most celebrated black female writer ever to work in Florida, but also one of the undisputed titans of African-American literature in U.S. history.
Detailed explanation-5: -By combining traditional literary prose in standard English with phonetically written-rather than correctly spelled-dialogue flush with metaphor and simile, Hurston distinctly captures the dialect and culture of her 1920s and ‘30s African American characters.