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Dust tracks on a road : the restored text established by the Library of America / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou ; afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr..

Hurston, Zora Neale. (Author). Angelou, Maya, (writer of foreword). Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (author of afterword, colophon, etc).

Summary:

An exuberant account of Zora Neale Hurston's rise from poverty in the rural south to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060854081
  • ISBN: 0062004832
  • ISBN: 9780060854089
  • ISBN: 9780062004833
  • Physical Description: xii, 308, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe edition
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First HarperPerennial edition published 1996"--Title page verso.
"Originally published in 1942 by J.B. Lippincott, Inc. The restored text was published in 1995 by the Library of America as part of Folklore, memoirs & other writings."--Verso of title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302).
Formatted Contents Note:
My birthplace -- My folks -- I get born -- Inside search -- Figure and fancy -- Wandering -- Jacksonville and after -- Back stage and the railroad -- School again -- Research -- Books and things -- My people! My people! -- Two women in particular -- Love -- Religion -- Looking things over -- Appendix: "My people, my people!" -- Seeing the world as it is -- Inside light--being a salute to friendship -- Concert -- Afterword -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology.

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Subject:
Hurston, Zora Neale.
African American authors > Biography.
African American women > Southern States > Biography.
African Americans > Southern States.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Folklorists > United States > Biography.
Harlem Renaissance.
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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