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Sto caricando le informazioni... Sweat (1926)di Cheryl A. Wall
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A powerful story about a woman living with an abusive husband. They survive by her sweat, and he resents her for it. When he brings a snake into the house, she has to confront an additional fear that is even more powerful than the man that beats her. The story is strong with images. You can see, hear, smell, and feel the story. A story about surviving as a black woman, powerless to control your own destiny, until fate delivers your destiny into your hands. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, "Sweat" stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. In "Sweat" Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. "Sweat" exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular. This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of "Sweat," and a second story, "The Gilded Six-Bits." Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the Southern United States. The volume also includes Hurston's groundbreaking 1934 essay, "Characteristics of Negro Expression," and excerpts from her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. An article by folklorist Roger Abrahams provides additional cultural contexts for the story, as do selected blues and spirituals. Critical commentary comes from Alice Walker, who led the recovery of Hurston's work in the 1970s, Robert Hemenway, Henry Louis Gates, Gayl Jones, John Lowe, Kathryn Seidel, and Mary Helen Washington. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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The story is characterized by the couple’s “black dialect”, being written as they actually talk. This makes the text less easy to read but on the other hand renders the dialogue more authentic.
Sykes is a violent man who beats his wife brutally. Sykes likes fat women and Delia is skinny, He is running around with a big woman called Bertha.
Delia is scared of snakes so Sykes brings a huge rattle snake home in a box.
Delia tells Sykes that she hates him as much as she once loved him. She hates him like a “suck-egg dog”.
Sykes now insults her appearance and tells her he has hated her for years.
A day or two later, while doing her laundry, Delia finds the snake in the laundry basket. She runs away and hides in the hay barn.
It is dark and there is only one match left. Sykes has been out and now returns and Delia hears the snake whirring; her husband is fighting with it.
In the morning, she hears Sykes calling “Delia, Delia”, but she cannot move.
He is on his hands and knees, and has a horribly swollen neck.
She feels pity but there is not time to make it to the doctor’s.
We don’t know exactly what has happened, but can understand that the end is nigh for Sykes: justice has been served. ( )