Zora Neale Hurston
What was the autobiographical and extra-literary context of this writer’s life and work? How did personal, historical and social factors influence the production and reception of their work? Directly citing the writer’s work: How did these factors impact their literary texts? Audience: Drawing from historical insights and your own analysis of the author’s work, what was the writer’s audience? What type of community of readers did they imagine? Was the author in conversation with other writers? How? Influence: How did this writer influence their contemporaries and later writers? Through both close reading of their work and engagement with their social context, describe the writer’s contributions to the black intellectual traditions and/or poetics?
