You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays 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。

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays pdf 佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿

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Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.
"One of the greatest writers of our time."--Toni Morrison
You Don't Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston's writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it. She argues that in the process of surviving, Black people re-interpreted every aspect of American culture--modif[ying] the language, mode of food preparation, practice of medicine, and most certainly religion." White supremacy prevents the world from seeing or completely recognizing Black people in their full humanity and Hurston made it her job to lift the veil and reveal the heart and soul of the race. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was--someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students. Also covered is the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing her lover, a white doctor.
Demonstrating the breadth of this revered and influential writer's work, You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays is an invaluable chronicle of a writer's development and a window into her world and mind.