Sweat/ How it feels to be Colored Me, Zora Neale
HurstonSweat/ How it feels to be Colored Me, Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale
Hurston was an African-American author who was born in 1891 in the all-black town
of Eatonville, Florida.. She attended Howard University in the early 1920's and
afterwards moved to Harlem were she attended graduate school at Barnard. She was
granted a fellowship to study oral traditions in the south. After this money ran
out, she was supported by wealthy white patrons from New York, yet this
restrained her ability to write freely. Funding for the Harlem Renaissance
disappeared during the depression and Ms. Hurston began to write full time.
Though she wrote many novels from the early 1930's through the '40's, she had
virtually now audience. She died in 1960 having worked as a maid for much of the
last decade of her life. It was not until later that Zora Neale Hurston's true
contribution to the literary world, and specifically the African-American field,
was rightfully appreciated.
- A Literary Analysis of "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
- by Mario Cortez
July 24, 1996
- An analysis of "How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
- by Celia Rodriguez
- An Excerpt from "Sweat"
- Scenes sheding light on the story
- Research Brief on "Sweat"
- by: Christina Lynch
- Analysis of "Sweat"
- by Michael Elliott
9/3/96