Her work was out of print for thirty-five years when in 1975, author Alice Walker revitalized interest in her with an essay that established Hurston as Walker’s literary ancestor and recounted Walker’s excursion to place a gravestone where she believed Hurston was buried. Upon her death on 28 January 1960 she was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce, Florida. After a false allegation of sexual misconduct against a minor-although the charges were dropped-Hurston’s reputation was damaged, and her increasingly conservative politics contributed to her exclusion from literary circles. Although she fearlessly celebrated black culture at a time when its most sympathetic proponents viewed it as exotic, Hurston’s political beliefs were sometimes at odds with black political movements-she opposed the Brown vs. Hurston’s later life was plagued by controversy, poverty, and isolation. Inventive across numerous genres, Hurston’s constant genius was her unmatched ability to impart the oral traditions of rural black southerners, using their voices to advance Boas’s salvaging mission, blur the borders between fiction and ethnography, and maintain that black expression was worthy of anthropological analysis. Then I had to have the spy-glass of Anthropology to look through at that” (p. Hurston’s famous quote, from her study of African American folklore, Mules and Men, sums up what drew her to anthropology: “It was only when I was off in college, away from my native surroundings that I could see myself like somebody else. Under Boas’ tutelage and supported by the patronage of white benefactors, Hurston traveled throughout the US South and to Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Honduras, documenting cultural and religious traditions. After training there with Franz Boas, Hurston would, in 1928, become Barnard’s first black graduate.
She began accumulating literary successes while studying at Howard University, and after her first nationally published short story appeared in 1924, she was prompted to join Harlem’s “New Negro” movement.” She transferred to Barnard, a women’s college affiliated with Columbia University. Hurston’s first publications, however, were in fiction, not anthropology. Eatonville also served as one of Hurston’s multiple ethnographic and folklore collecting field sites. She claimed her childhood home of Eatonville, a black township in Florida, as her birthplace, and it inspired her masterful command of what was then termed “Negro folklore,” tall tales, or “lies” as Hurston put it. Most scholars now agree that Hurston was born on 7 January 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, but for decades she obscured her place and date of birth.
Now we know that in 1925 she won the scholarship and at that time she was the only Black woman in college.Zora Neale Hurston was a dynamic interdisciplinary writer and ethnographer who earned acclaim during the Harlem Renaissance, whose brilliant works of fiction were marginalized from popular and academic discourses until the 1970s, and whose pioneering contributions to anthropology and folklore are championed by 21st-century anthropologists of the African diaspora.
(E) In 1925 when she won a scholarship, Zora was the only Black student in the entire college. But this sentence just tells us that she won the scholarship in 1925. Of course, there should to be a point of time in the sentence because she was the only Black student at that time. In fact this sentence doesn't tell us when Zora was the only Black student in the college. Neither do we have two simultaneous actions nor a reason. (C) Winning, in 1925, a scholarship, Zora was the only Black student in the entire college. (Because he knew his sister was en route, he tidied up) Knowing his sister was en route, he tidied up. Whistling a tune, he crossed the road absentmindedly. We often use the present participle at the beginning of the sentence to show two actions at the same time or to explain a reason (as if we have started with 'because'). To me, they both seem logically and grammatically correct, with only ever so slight diff.
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