![]() There is one more important character, but I am not going to give away who that is.more We observe Delia Jones, a wash-woman, her cruel husband Sykes, the two married for fifteen long years, and Sykes’ current fling. The setting is a rural black community in Florida, probably during the 1920s. In a few pages Zora Neale Hurston conjures a place and a time perfectly, capturing the weather, the drudgery and the harshness of life, the importance of religion in the South, a marital relationship that has soured and a community that observes, talks but does nothing. The dialogs are written just as they should. The Southern dialect in the dialogs was in this short story more difficult for me to follow than in the other stories I have read by the author. It will surely grip you too.ĭon’t’ miss this short story. SWEATY GIRL SORTY FREEIn a few pages Zora Neale Hurston conjures a place and Here follows a free online link to the short story. Here follows a free online link to the short story. Critical commentary comes from Alice Walker, who led the recovery of Hurston's work in the 1970s, Robert Hemenway, Henry Louis Gates, Gayl Jones, John Lowe, Kathryn Seidel, and Mary Helen Washington.more An article by folklorist Roger Abrahams provides additional cultural contexts for the story, as do selected blues and spirituals. The volume also includes Hurston's groundbreaking 1934 essay, "Characteristics of Negro Expression," and excerpts from her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of "Sweat," and a second story, "The Gilded Six-Bits." Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the Southern United States. "Sweat" exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular. In "Sweat" Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, "Sweat" stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, "Sweat" stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. ![]()
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