A trilogy of three plays based upon the life of Florida-born author, Zora Neale Hurston, which emphasizes Hurston's unique place in American literary history. The plays, Zora, Color Struck and Weary Blues, and Tea with Zora and Marjorie are based on not only interpretations of Zora's works, letters, and conversations with people who remember her, but also the works and letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Carl Van Vechten, Fanny Hurst, and Langston Hughes. The three plays present Hurston first as a child in Eatonville at the turn of the century, then as a young woman during the Harlem Renaissance, and finally in her full maturity. The structure of Zora and Color Struck and Weary Blues is concentrated on two of the most important days of Zora's life, which are the day of her mother's death when she was about 12 and the night of the Opportunity Award's Banquet which launched the Harlem Renaissance. The structure of Tea with Zora and Marjorie is different from the two previous plays because it relates to the period from 1942 until 1952 in the life of not only Zora Hurston but Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, another prominent Florida writer. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: A, page: 1458. / Major Professor: Shila Taylor. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76314 |
| Creators | Speisman, Barbara Waddell |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 160 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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