LIT 158 HM -Zora Neale Hurston

Institution: Harvey Mudd

Description: This seminar is designed to introduce students to Zora Neale Hurston as an ethnographer and fiction writer. Hurston was the first African American woman to graduate from Barnard College. Born in the South, highly educated in the North, a luminary amongst the talents of the Harlem Renaissance, and buried in an unmarked grave in her native Florida, Hurston’s writing and life offer a unique view onto notions of race, gender, art, and class in the aftermath of Reconstruction that reverberate to this day. HSA Writing Intensive: Yes

Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

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