TY - GEN T1 - Zora Neale Hurston : collected plays T2 - Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas. A1 - Hurston, Zora Neale A2 - Cole, Jean Lee A2 - Mitchell, Charles, 1967- LA - English PP - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn271437024 AB - Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Even avid readers of Hurston's prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime-and some to public acclaim-they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston's dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a "real Negro theater" that embraces all the richness of black life OP - 389 CN - PS3515.U789 A6 2008eb SN - 9780813545127 SN - 0813545129 SN - 9786611776435 SN - 6611776435 SN - 081354291X SN - 0813542928 SN - 9780813542911 SN - 9780813542928 SN - 1281776432 SN - 9781281776433 KW - Hurston, Zora Neale : 1891-1960 KW - Hurston, Zora Neale. KW - African Americans : Drama. KW - American drama. KW - Théâtre américain. KW - DRAMA : American. KW - DRAMA : American : General. KW - African Americans KW - Drama KW - Drama. KW - Théâtre. ER -