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Jump At the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Her Eatonville Roots. Weeklong Summer Workshop, July 2013.
| Location: | Florida, United States |
| Seminar Date: | 2013-03-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2013-01-17 |
| Announcement ID: |
200483 |
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The Florida Humanities Council (FHC) invites educators from across the United States to join distinguished historians, folklorists, and literary scholars for a week-long workshop, Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and her Eatonville Roots. Just ten miles north of Orlando, Eatonville lies in the shadow of the world's largest theme park. Surrounded by five lakes and acres of orange groves, the oldest incorporated black municipality in the United States is where Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), writer, folklorist, anthropologist, and arguably the most significant collector and interpreter of Southern African American culture spent her childhood. It was a "pure Negro town...where the only white folks were those who passed through," Hurston wrote about the town, which provided the folktales, characters, and events that inspired her literary works and folklore expeditions.
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