Love in Hurston's Art and Life

Patterson, Tiffany Ruby

doi:10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0077

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Research Article| April 01 2020

Love in Hurston's Art and Life

Tiffany Ruby Patterson

Vanderbilt University

Tiffany Ruby Patterson teaches at Vanderbilt University in the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies. She is the author of Zora Neale Hurston and A History of Southern Life (2005). She is senior co-editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.

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Utopian Studies (2015) 26 (1): 77–93.

https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0077

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Love centers Zora Neale Hurston's art and her life. Her most celebrated novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and her sharply criticized autobiography, Dust Tracks on A Road, explore the beauty and difficulties of love for women in the early twentieth century. Janie in Their Eyes was forced to choose between love and freedom to be herself. For Hurston, passionate love for one man competed with her deep desire for a career as a writer and playwright. In all instances, self-fulfillment won out over love.

love, freedom, self-fulfillment, jealousy, friendship

2020

The Pennsylvania State University

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