6/26/2023 0 Comments Zora neale hurston last bookOf the Yoruba people, he had been born in 1841 in West Africa. Lewis, 88 years old, was thought to be the last person in America who had been born and lived in Africa, and been brought to America and sold into slavery. Starting in December 1927, for about three months, Hurston moved to Mobile and interviewed Lewis extensively. On a couple of earlier folklore-gathering expeditions in the South, Hurston had met and chatted with Cudjo Lewis, whose African name was Kossola Olualay. This ties in perfectly with the publication, finally, of “Barracoon.” Robert Hemenway did a literary biography in 1980, then Valerie Boyd in 2003 published “Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.” Only a few months ago the relationship between Hurston and Langston Hughes was examined in “Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal” by Yuval Taylor and recently there has been a lot of interest in the rediscovery and examination of the “Clotilda,” the last, albeit illegal, slave ship, in Mobile Bay. In her remarkable article in “Ms.” magazine in 1975, “Looking for Zora,” Alice Walker brought attention to Hurston’s life and work, and attention has been paid, pretty steadily, ever since. There was a time when Zora Neale Hurston and her writings were, indeed, nearly forgotten. Publisher: Amistad (HarperCollins Publishers) “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’”
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