The Writings of Zora Neale Hurston Examine the Relationships Between th

The Writings of Zora Neale Hurston Examine the Relationships Between the Sexes black literature is the voice of a melt and a people who have a very passionate existence. They have existed in harsh conditions in this country for many, many generations. Their stories told orally, and those that were eventually written down, cast life as members of African tribes forced to adapt their cultural beliefs to a new way of life, slaves with almost no rights or respect, finally free workforce and women, and as American citizens who are also black. In their writings the reader comes to understand the African-American hi report and community. By far, one of the most wonderful, fascinating aspects of the African-American community is the emphasis on the relationships between the sexes. Authors such as Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison and many other wonderful female writers give their readers an understanding of the beauty, pain, ecstasy, and confusion that exist in the re lationships of African American men and women. All of the authors mentioned are female because their literature is about black women it takes the trouble to record the thoughts, words, feelings, and deeds of black women, experiences that make the realities of macrocosm black in America look very different from what men have written(Washington 35). Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most famous and passionate black writers of the ordinal century, wrote many stories about women and their relationships. The Guilded Six-bits, and Magnolia Flower are two examples by Hurston in which the female characters play a large role in the dynamics of the story and the relationship. In these stories, the men and women find their roles as lovers, her... ...lack, interlingual rendition Feminist A Critical Anthology. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York Meridian, 1990. 307-317. Hurston, Zora Neale. The Complete Stories of Zora Neale Hurston. New York Harper, 1995. Lionnet, Francoise. Autoe thnography The An-Archic Style of debris Tracks on a Road. Reading Black, Reading Feminist A Critical Anthology. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York Meridian, 1990. 382-394. Saidi, Pouria. Individualism and the Issue of Race in the deeds of Zora Neale Hurston. Brighton High School, English Department Webpage. (1997) Online. Available http//www.bcsd.org/BHS/english/mag97/papers/hurston.htm Washington, Mary Helen. The Darkened Eye Restored Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women. Reading Black, Reading Feminist A Critical Anthology. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York Meridian, 1990. 30-43.