აფრო-ამერიკელი მწერალი ქალი, ზორა ჰერსტონი: ახალი ხედვები
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2022-12
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა
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In 1975, 15 years after Zora Neal Hurston’s death, African-American
writer Alice Walker published an essay, “In Search of Zora Neal Hurstons,”
in Ms. magazine, which marked a new beginning in the process of
reevaluation of her achievements and role in American literature. My
presentation aims at introducing this unfairly ignored writer whose
legacy and life experience might be equally interesting.
Writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston is the
author of several novels, an autobiography, plays, essays, and a number
of non-fiction works. However, the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching
God” is considered to be her magnum opus. The novel, which is widely
discussed and highly praised today, was a commercial failure and
sank without a trace soon after publication. Her non-fiction project:
“Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” published in 2018, has
an even more dramatic history. The book is based on interviews with
the last survivor of the last slave ship to land on American shores. Prior
to being published, the manuscript was stored in the Howard University
library archives, and it took 87 years for Barracoon to see the light of
day.
When Hurston arrived in New York City in 1925, the Harlem
Renaissance was at its zenith, and she soon became one of the
writers at its center. Although highly acclaimed today, her books drew
their share of criticism at the time, as they depicted problems of the
African-American community in an untraditional, controversial way.
Contrary to the former attitude, today it is considered that her legacy “may help teach us to live with uncomfortable truths, not only about
the complicated and terrible stories it records but also about the
complicated and tremendous author who recorded it“. (Cep. 2018, p.2)
“Literature as profound and original as the spirituals” – such is
Zora Neal Hurston’s assessment today. The path that led her from harsh
criticism and obscurity to such acclaim is, without a doubt, worthy of
renewed attention and appropriate study.
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აფრო-ამერიკული ლიტერატურა, ქალთა საკითხები, რასიზმი, African – American Literature, Women studies, Racism
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პროფესორ დავით გოცირიძის 70 წლისთავისადმი მიძღვნილი სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია, თეზისები, 2022, გვ.: 71-75/ Scientific Conference DEDICATED TO THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF PROF. DAVIT GOTSIRIDZE, Abstracts, 2022, pp.: 71-75