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Outside the context of contemporary art, the present debate surrounding Walker's work elicits even eerier deja-vu in light of the black literary tradition to which Walker owes so much. Over fifty years ago, Richard Wright argued against Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, claiming the book perpetuated stereotypes of blacks as "happy darkies" and minstrels. When asked about this parallel Walker answered, "The black arts community is still really young. We keep bringing up the same themes to trash each other...
...take issue with Gray's statement that Morrison is "the author who almost single-handedly gave African-American women their rightful place in American literature." That view heedlessly erases the numerous African-American women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler and Carolivia Herron among them--who, as Morrison's sisters, have brilliantly contributed to contemporary African-American letters. THOMAS GRAVE Providence...
Ghana is honoring six writers. Besides Gates, Maya Angelou, Alex Haley, Charles Johnson, Richard Wright and Toni Cade Bambara will each have their own stamp. In a separate series, Uganda will issue stamps of Rita Dove, Mari Evans, Sterling A. Brown, Stephen Henderson, Zora Neale Hurston and June Jordan...
...quietest moment of the ceremonies, just the old sweet song of Georgia on My Mind, performed by Gladys Knight. She in turn gave way to the new, sweet, if somewhat pretentious Summertime allegory, which featured giant puppets, a riverboat and 440 butterflies, not to mention quotes from Zora Neal Hurston, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner...
...last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that, Hurston and the older black writers took her into their world as prodigy and mascot...