LibGuides: Zora Neale Hurston: Intellectual

Zora Sources at UCF

Zora Neale Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies
As a significant element of the UCF College of Humanities, the Hurston Institute will bring a world focus to the theory and practice of forms of storytelling, cinematic expression, research and programs that encourage civic engagement and meaningfully address the work of excluded communities using an arts, culture and humanities framework that is located outside the interests of the mainstream.
Zora Archive at UCF
Launched in 2006 by Anna Lillios, Mark L. Kamrath, and J.D. Applen, the Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive has two goals. Its primary purpose is to provide an academic site that will provide a repository of biographical, historical, critical, and other contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work. The site also seeks to make available various teaching resources so that both teachers and students can more fully appreciate the cultural and literary richness of Hurston's numerous writings. With time and funding, we hope to also develop a digital edition of Hurston's writings.

A secondary goal of the site is to work closely with the city of Eatonville, Florida, The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, and other interested parties in documenting Hurston's accomplishments both as a regional ethnographer and anthropologist and one of the world's most talented African–American women writers.

Open Access Books and/or Articles on Zora

Newland, L. (1970). Twelve black Floridians (pp. 43-52). Tallahassee, FL: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Foundation.

Pratt, T. (1961, July). Zora Neale Hurston. The Florida Historical Quarterly, 40(1), 35-40.

PBS American Masters Series - Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Visit Films on Demand and watch Jump at the Sun, a biography about Hurston. This includes a career timeline of Hurston, a letter written by Hurston to a friend, and film footage shot by Hurston of some of her anthropological work in the WPA.

Articles in the databases

Find Boyd's article in the JSTOR database, she provides a rich and entertaining account of Zora's time at Howard University.

Boyd, V. (2003, Spring). Zora Neale Hurston: The Howard university years. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 39, 104-108.

Also available from JSTOR:

Borders, F. E. & Hurston, Z. N. (1979, May). Zora Neale Hurston: Hidden woman [Including a letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Countee Cullen]. Callaloo, 6, 89-92.

Delbanco, A. (Winter, 1997-1998). The political incorectness of Zora Neale Hurston. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 18, 103-108.

Available from Academic Search Complete:

Hurston, Z. N. (1942, September 5). Lawrence of the river. Saturday Evening Post, 215(10), 18, 55-57.

Hurston, Z. N. (1951, December 8). A negro voter sizes up Taft. Saturday Evening Post, 224(23), 29, 150-152.

Available from Humanities Full Text

Manuel, Carme. "Mule Bone: Langston Hughes And Zora Neale Hurston's Dream Deferred Of An African-American Theatre Of The Black Word." African American Review 35.1 (2001): 77-92.

Politics

"The Newly Complicated Zora Neale Hurston"
From The Chronicle of Higher Education, news about Zora's fiction depicting urban black culture during the Harlem Renaissance.
"Thus Spake Zora"
From City Journal, an insight into Zora's conservative political views.

Famous Writers on Zora

Gates, H. L., Jr. (1978, February 19). Soul of a black woman: Zora Neale Hurston black woman. New York Times, p. BR4.

Alain Locke

Books at Main Edited by Alain Locke:
The Negro in Art:A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art
The New Negro: An Interpretation

With Locke:
Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature

Alain Locke, Howard University professor and mentor to Harlem Renaissance artists.

Franz Boas

Books at Main by Boas
Primitive Art
Anthropology and Modern Life

Books about Boas:
Pioneers of American Anthropology: The Uses of Biography
Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

Franz Boas, Barnard College professor and mentor to Hurston.