Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick pdf

佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿（佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿，1891 年 1 月 7 日至 1960 年 1 月 28 日）是美国作家、人类学家和电影制片人。她描绘了 1900 年代早期美国南部的种族斗争，并发表了关于不祥之物的研究。她的四部小说中最受欢迎的是 1937 年出版的《他们的眼睛看着上帝》。她还写了 50 多篇短篇小说、戏剧和散文。
赫斯顿出生于阿拉巴马州的诺塔苏尔加，并于 1894 年随家人搬到佛罗里达州的伊顿维尔。她后来将伊顿维尔作为她许多故事的背景。在她早期的职业生涯中，赫斯顿在巴纳德学院和哥伦比亚大学就读期间进行了人类学和人种学研究。她对非洲裔美国人和加勒比地区的民间传说以及这些民间传说对社区身份的贡献很感兴趣。
她还写了关于黑人社区当代问题的小说，并成为哈莱姆文艺复兴的核心人物。她从非洲裔美国人的经历和种族划分中汲取的短篇讽刺作品发表在《新黑人与火焰！！》等选集中。搬回佛罗里达后，赫斯顿撰写并出版了她关于北佛罗里达非裔美国人民间传说的文学选集《骡子和男人》（1935 年），以及她的前三部小说：《乔纳的葫芦藤》（1934 年）；他们的眼睛注视着上帝（1937）；和摩西，山中人（1939 年）。在此期间还出版了《告诉我的马：海地和牙买加的巫毒与生活》（1938 年），记录了她对牙买加和海地仪式的研究。

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison) the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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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.
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
"For Zora Neale Hurston the Harlem Renaissance began in 1921, when she published her first short story, and it ended in 1937 with the publication of her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. In the period between, she wrote twenty-one stories, all of which appear here together in a single volume for the first time. Included in Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick are several “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales, eight of which challenge readers to rethink their assumptions about Hurston’s literary interests. An author long associated with the rural, with Eatonville, Florida, she wrote eight stories about northern cities and the Great Migration. She also wrote about Harlem’s middle class. Thus, this new Harlem Renaissance volume provides a much-needed correction to Hurston’s legacy and better reflects the true breadth of her subject matter."