“Uncle Monday” is a short story by Zora Neale Hurston. The central figure is a mysterious and powerful hoodoo conjurer named Uncle Monday. The story is set in rural Florida. The unnamed narrator appears to represent the residents of the village where Uncle Monday lives, for the villagers are ever fascinated with the powerful, mysterious man. The story explores themes of nature, folklore, hearsay, folly, and community.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), folklorist and novelist, was best known for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in whic...
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"Zora was funny, irreverent (she was the first to call the Harlem Renaissance literati the 'niggerati'), good-looking and sexy," wrote Alice Walker. Having been one of the most prolific African-Americ...
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From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty-year period she published seven books, numerous short st...
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Zora Neale Hurston achieved moderate success during the Harlem Renaissance as a short-story writer and a collector of black-American folklore. Her stories deserve attention beyond the concerns of bla...
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Biography EssayFrom the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many ...
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston