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Zora Neale Hurston. 'Sweat' is a short story by American writer Zora Neale Hurston, first published in literary magazine Fire!! in 1926. The story centres on Delia, a washerwoman in a small central Florida town. Delia's husband, Sykes, does not have a job and is abusive. He resents the fact that Delia has to wash the clothes of white people.
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1891 in Alabama, moving with her family when she was a young child to Eatonville, Florida, one of the nation’s first all-black towns. Hurston enjoyed a happy childhood in Eatonville. In 1904, however, Hurston’s idyllic young life came to an end when her mother died. Hurston’s father soon remarried, and ...
Zora Neale Hurston portrays racism and poverty as serious problems that can provoke a variety of responses, some more useful than others. In particular, with the character of Sykes, she shows that the stress of inhabiting a marginalized social position may partially explain morally objectionable behavior, but it does not excuse such a choice.
21 de jul. de 2022 · Hurston, Zora Neale. Sweat, African American women -- Fiction, African American women in literature Publisher New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
Revived Influence Hurston’s writings fell out of the public eye until Alice Walker revived interest in Hurston’s work with the 1975 essay “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” published in Ms. magazine.
While “Sweat” is closely focused on the troubled relationship between Delia and Sykes, it is also set in a poor, all-black town in segregated 1920s Florida. The theme of race and class, although it is not a central part of the story’s plot, inevitably comes into play in such a setting. Zora Neale Hurston uses this aspect of the story to ...
As discussed in the theme of Christianity, Hurston portrays Delia’s suffering as Christ-like. This comparison is explicitly connected to her years of hard work: it is “Delia’s work-worn knees” that are described as crawling over the Biblical locations of Gethsemane and Calvary. Entitlement is morally and practically untenable, Hurston ...
