조라 닐 허스턴

소개

조라 닐 허스턴(영어: Zora Neale Hurston, 1891년 1월 7일 – 1960년 1월 28일)은 미국의 작가, 인류학자, 영화 제작자였다. 1900년대 초반 미국 남부의 인종 갈등을 묘사했으며 후두에 대한 연구 결과를 발표했다. 그녀의 네 편의 소설 중 가장 인기 있는 작품은 1937년에 출판된 『그들의 눈은 신을 바라보고 있었다』(Their Eyes Were Watching God)이다. 또한 50편 이상의 단편소설, 희곡, 수필을 썼다.

Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Some of her work, namely Tell My Horse (1937), explored ethnomusicological methods of study long before there were formal boundaries for the discipline, especially not boundaries that included the respectful study of communities of color. Hurston's unique background and exceptional approach to anthropology laid key foundations for the growth of ethnography, literature, and Africana Studies.