Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023)

ALL 01/17/2023 (en) Documentary, History 112 Min
  • Release
    01/17/2023
  • Production
    PBS
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.

  1. Story

  2. Mark Dugas

    Editor



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  1. Zora Neale Hurston

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Vanessa Williams

    Narrator (voice)

  3. Bahni Turpin

    Zora Neale Hurston (voice)

  4. Lee D. Baker

    Self

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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023) 112 Min

ALL 01/17/2023 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 01/17/2023
  • Production
    PBS
  • Original title Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.

  1. Tracy Heather Strain

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Mark Dugas

    Editor

  4. Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather Strain

    Producer