I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive

by Hurston, Zora Neale; Walker, Alice; Washington, Mary Helen

• ISBN13: 9780912670669
• ISBN10: 0912670665
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-11-01
• Publisher: Feminist Pr

Summary

   The most prolific African-American woman author from 1920 to 1950, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence, arrogance, and audaciousness. This unique anthology, with 14 superb examples of her fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual leader of the next generation of black writers. In addition to six essays and short stories, the collection includes excerpts from Dust Tracks on the Road ; Mules and Me ; Tell My Horse ; Jonah's Gourd Vine ; Moses, Man of the Mountain ; and Their Eyes Were Watching God . The original commentary by Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington, two African-American writers in the forefront of the Hurston revival, provide illuminating insights into Hurston-the writer, the person-as well as into American social and cultural history.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. 1
On Refusing to Be Humbled by Second Place in a Contest You Did Not Design: A Tradition by Now
Introduction	p. 7
Zora Neale Hurston: A Woman Half in Shadow
Autobiography, Folklore and Reportage	p. 26
From Dust Tracks on a Road	p. 28
From Mules and Men	p. 82
From Tell My Horse	p. 123
Essays and Articles	p. 150
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	p. 152
The "Pet" Negro System	p. 156
My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience	p. 163
Crazy for This Democracy	p. 165
What White Publishers Won't Print	p. 169
Fiction	p. 174
The Eatonville Anthology	p. 177
From Jonah's Gourd Vine	p. 189
Sweat	p. 197
The Gilded Six-Bits	p. 208
From Moses, Man of the Mountain	p. 219
From Their Eyes Were Watching God	p. 246
Afterword	p. 297
Looking for Zora
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