ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Publicado por primeira vez em 1937, um dos livros mais celebrados de Zora Neale Hurston, é hoje considerado unanimemente pola crítica um clássico da literatura afroamericana e o romance pioneiro no tratamento literario do preto como um ser humano completo, complexo e nom diminuido. E a historia de Janie Mae Crawford, heroina deste romance, simbolo privilegiado da negritude feminina.Traducçom do ingles de Elvira Souto.

En esta novela, Belén Gopegui explora la vigilancia digital, la privacidad y el poder en la era de los algoritmos. A través de una trama que mezcla ficción y reflexión política, seguimos a dos jóvenes que intentan resistir el control invisible que ejercen las grandes corporaciones tecnologicas. La obra plantea preguntas sobre la libertad, el consentimiento y la posibilidad de construir alternativas al sistema dominante. Con su estilo incisivo y comprometido, Gopegui invita al lector a mirar mas alla de lo evidente y cuestionar el mundo que habitamos.

* Zora Neale Hurstons masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

This vibrant first novel by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential African-American writers, is reissued with a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston revealing the historical Herod the Great not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure In the 1950s after the publication of Moses Man of the Mountain Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the life of one of the most well known Biblical figures Herod the Great reimagining him in a very different light than his villainous portrayal in the New Testament In Hurston s retelling Herod is a forerunner of Christ a religious and philosophical man who enriched Jewish culture and lived a life of adventure From the peaks of triumph to the depths of human misery the historical Herod seemed to have been singled out by some deity and especially endowed to attract the zigzag lightning of fate Hurston writes An intimate of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar the Judean king lived in a time of war and imperial expansion that was rife with political assassinations and bribery as the old world gave way to the new Setting him within this vivid colorful world little known to modern readers Hurston s unfinished manuscript brings this complex compelling and misunderstood leader fully into focus Scholar and litera

The Mule-Bone, written by renowned African American poet Langston Hughes, is a satirical play that engages the complexities of race relations and the significance of the cultural heritage of African Americans in the early 20th century. The play follows two friends, Dave and Bones, who enter into a heated debate about which one of them will be able to buy a mule at an auction.

Materias: Ficción y temas afines Editorial: Universidad de León

Cover design by Harlem renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds ...''For me, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more'' Zadie Smith ''One of the greatest writers of our time'' Toni Morrison

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nations history. Hurston was there to record Cudjos firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjos pastmemories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjos unique vernacular, and written from Hurstons perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

Janie avait seize ans. Un feuillage vernissé et des bourgeons tout près d’éclore et le désir de prendre à bras-le-corps la vie, mais la vie semblait se dérober. Où donc étaient-elles, ses abeilles ch

Barracoon désigne les bâtiments utilisés pour le confinement des Africains destinés à être vendus et exportés vers l’Europe et les Amériques. Ces bâtiments allaient du modeste « abri à esclaves » aux

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickA deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who dont know how to live properly. Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty yearsdue largely to initial audiences rejection of its strong black female protagonistHurstons classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.