![]() ![]() ![]() African-American Studies Hurston drumming in Haiti ![]() She called those the "haunted years." She even erased portions of her age - first in order to finish high school ten years too late, and later to simply claim an age which matched her vitality. ![]() Zora also erased the decade after her mother's death, when from the age of thirteen, her father farmed her out to various other homes. She simply erased the first two years of her life in Alabama before her family moved to Eatonville. In conversation and in her autobiography, however, she says she was born in America's first incorporated Negro town, Eatonville, Florida, daughter of the town's mayor/minister. Zora was born in Alabama, daughter of a former slave-turned sharecropper. Creating Herself Journaling Florida Culture Now Zora Neale Hurston is an icon to those who won't let the world define them. By extension, she translated the female African-American identity into one without fences. Hurston created her own identity through academic determination, literary achievement, and carefree embellishment. She denied the negative aspects of her life and broadcasted the positive. But even fewer can claim such a vibrant spirit. Not many people can claim hardships like those of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). ![]()
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