-Jessica Mitchell
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Discussion on Hurston/Walker continued...
In our group for discussion today, we discussed how we liked that in Zora Neale Hurston's biography it says, "Recognized today as one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century..." We thought that it was nice that she was called an American novelist because there are several categories people could label her writing with, such as women writer or African American writer. Then we went to look again at Alice Walker's biography to see what she was listed as and we found,"An internationally renown African American novelist, poet, and essayist..." We as a group were surprised to see that Walker had been listed as African American, but Hurston was just listed as American. They both had similar upbringings and both wrote about similar things, so why is it that they are considered in different categories of novelists?
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