Dean Deborah Cureton, U.W.-R Campus Executive Officer and Dean will discuss the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston at the celebration of the Library Millennium books, one of which is Their Eyes Were Watching God. The books stands alone as the finest example of search for self-expression in Afro-American literature.
Dean Cureton has a passion for promoting reading. She came to U.W.-R in 2001 from the University of South Carolina, Lancaster, where she was administrator and professor. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin, he M.Ed. degree from the University of South Carolina in Reading Education, and he BA from US-C in French Education.
The authors of The Complete Stories of Zora Neale Hurston Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke, say, "Her stories attest to Hurston's sustained concern with the structure of myth and allegory as vehicles for the representation of the conflicts and dilemmas that African-Americans share with all other human beings." Her great themes, obsessions, are love, betrayal, and death. And yet, along with these profound ideas are humor, compassion, and wisdom. This novel is a bold, feminist novel in the African American tradition. Zora has found a voice for many of the themes that inspire her work as whole.
Friends of the Library invite you to join Dean Cureton and book-worms in an exciting discussion and consideration of the art of the woman who was the most prolific black woman writer in the Americas, Zora Neale Hurston!
The Millennium Books are in the collection at the Brewer Public Library. They represent the finest American writers' work of the 20th Century. Zora Neale Hurston is one of the Millennium collection's writers.
If you plan to attend this event, please sign up at the main desk at the Library. Copies of Their Eyes Were Watching God may be ordered at Trappings. Call 647-6845 to order. For information, please call 647-4444, The Brewer Public Library.