Dust Tracks on a Road

by Hurston, Zora Neale

• ISBN13: 9780060921682
• ISBN10: 0060921684
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-10
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and a sword in my hands." First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity, this is Zora Neale Hurston's unrestrained account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to prominence among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. Full of wit and wisdom, and audaciously spirited, Dust Tracks on a Road offers a rare, poignant glimpse of the life -- public and private -- of a premier African-American writer, artist, anthropologist and champion of the black heritage.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
1 My Birthplace	1	(6)
2 My Folks	7	(12)
3 I Get Born	19	(6)
4 The Inside Search	25	(20)
5 Figure and Fancy	45	(18)
6 Wandering	63	(10)
7 Jacksonville and After	73	(14)
8 Back Stage and the Railroad	87	(34)
9 School Again	121	(22)
10 Research	143	(28)
11 Books and Things	171	(6)
12 My People! My People!	177	(16)
13 Two Women in Particular	193	(10)
14 Love	203	(12)
15 Religion	215	(12)
16 Looking Things Over	227	(6)
Appendix:	233	(54)
"My People, My People!"	235	(12)
Seeing the World as It Is	247	(20)
The Inside Light--Being a Salute to Friendship	267	(12)
Concert	279	(8)
Afterword	287	(12)
Selected Bibliography	299	(4)
Chronology	303