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Lädt ... Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingsvon anna lillios
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One of the twentieth century's most intriguing and complicated literary friendships was that between Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. In death, their reputations have reversed, but in the early 1940s Rawlings had already achieved wild success with her best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, while Hurston had published Their Eyes Were Watching God to unfavorable critical reviews. When they met, both were at the height of their literary powers. Hurston appears to have sought out Rawlings as a writer who could understand her talent and as a potential patron and champion. Rawlings did become an advocate for Hurston, and by all accounts a warm friendship developed between the two. Yet at every turn, Rawlings's own racism and the societal norms of the Jim Crow South loomed on the horizon, until her friendship with Hurston transformed Rawlings's views on the subject and made her an advocate for racial equality. Anna Lillios's Crossing the Creek is the first book to examine the productive and complex relationship between these two major figures. Is there truth to the story that Hurston offered to work as Rawlings's maid? Why did Rawlings host a tea for Hurston in St. Augustine? In what ways did each write the friendship into their novels? Using interviews with individuals who knew both women, as well as incisive readings of surviving letters, Lillios examines these questions and many others in this remarkable book. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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In a meticulously researched book, Lillios draws on interviews with friends and acquaintances of the two writers and Rawlings' extensive correspondence in the University of Florida collection, as well as on the work of earlier scholars, to piece together the complex friendship that blossomed between the two women.
In the Jim Crow South of the 1940s and 1950s, strange dances were performed in the interactions of races, classes and genders -- so strange that those who grew up after the 1960s find them incomprehensible. With acumen and sensitivity Lillios interprets some of the choreography of these dances and reveals new insights into the difficult last decade of the writers' lives (Rawlings died in 1953, Hurston in 1960).
While this is definitely an academic study with many quotes and citations, it is carefully constructed and reads easily. Recommended for anyone interested in the life and work of either writer or the evolving racial consciousness of the American South. ( )