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Zora Neale Hurston: “A Genius of the South”
- karcass 9y agoThe standards are lower there ;)
- meri_dian 9y agoIronically, a stupid thing to say.
- rks404 9y agoare you sure about that? Literature from the South has been one of America's most successful cultural exports. It's the land of Faulkner, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Walker and many of the greats.
- howoddalien 9y ago...Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCuller, Robert Penn Warren... the list is massive. I’m not sure the OP realizes how offensive they’re being by implying lower standards. If anything, they set the standard for american literature. Note, I am definitely not a southerner.
- nathan_long 9y agoY'all don't have access to Wikipedia up north? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States_literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States_literat...
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- dtparr 9y agoBless their heart.
- santaclaus 9y agoDelaware is considered a southern state by the Census? Weird! It seems to have more in common with the New Jersey and New York than, say, South Carolina. Is it just an arbitrary Mason Dixon thing?
- sctb 9y agoPlease don't post like this here again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lizardwalk5 9y agoby coincidence, I picked up this book for reading over lunch and it is a compelling story. I got about halfway through before forcing myself to put it down. during college, Their Eyes were Watching God, by Hurston was required reading for one of my courses. but I never really knew much about her life or personality.
- obscurantist 9y agoI read her stuff in my cultural anthropology class years ago. I enjoyed that class a lot.