Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
"Sweat"
Background to the Story
    Research
    Characteristics of Negro Expressions
    Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women
    A Selection of Blues and Spirituals
    Genesis 1-3
    Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text
    The Gilded Six-Bits
Critical Essays
    From Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
    Breaking out of the Conventions of Dialect
    The Artist in the Kitchen: The Economies of Creativity in Hurston's "Sweat"
    From Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy
    "I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left her Husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's Emergent Female Hero
    Looking for Zara
    Selected Bibliography
    Permissions

About the Author

Cheryl Wall is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the editor of Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women (Rutgers University Press) and the author of Women of Letters of the Harlem Renaissance.