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Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat,” originally published in the single‑issue Harlem Renaissance magazine “Fire!!” in November 1926, has since become a frequently anthologized work. The story examines marital strife and the emergence of spiritual consciousness in an African‑American woman’s experience, illustrating Hurston’s lifelong focus on women’s relationship to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular. The collection containing “Sweat” offers an introduction, a chronology of Hurston’s life, the authoritative text, and a companion story, “The Gilded Six‑Bits,” written after her fieldwork in the southern United States.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: Zora Neale Hurston
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