LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist
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a member of the UNIA
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an African-American political figure
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none of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
Detailed explanation-2: -American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. An important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston’s works focused on African American culture and the rural south.
Detailed explanation-3: -The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Hurston’s novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Her work in anthropology examined black folklore.
Detailed explanation-5: -But long before she published her renowned 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston was exploring the diversity of the black American experience in her short stories, most of which eluded critical attention during her lifetime.