The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras Green Sharony
The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras Green Sharony A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.Zora Neale Hurston, an…
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The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras Green Sharony
A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions. In The Chase and Ruins, Sharony Green uncovers an understudied but important period of Hurston's life: her stay in Honduras in the late 1940s.On the eve of an awful accusation that nearly led to her suicide, Hurston fled to Honduras in search of a lost Mayan ruin. When both she and her writing fell out of favor after the Harlem Renaissance, she struggled not only to regain an audience for her novels but also to simply make ends meet.
But by escaping the Jim Crow During her yearlong trip south of the US border, she appears to have never found the ruin she was chasing.
Zora Neale Hurston