FREE ESSAY ON HARLEM RENISSANCE

HARLEM RENISSANCE

The Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Throughout my research of the Harlem Renaissance I learned many things I previously
didn't know. One aspect of the Harlem RENAISSANCE that I researched was the author Zora
Neale Hurston, and her contributions to the period. I learned much about the black
influence on writing while doing this project.
The Harlem Renaissance took place between the years of 1916 and 1940. During this time
there occurred to be an artistic and intellectual revolution in Back America. It said to
be driven by political and economic circumstances in the United States. That what the
Harlem Renissance was based on many influential blacks showing their talents and speaking
out about how they feel. 
Zora Hurston had a very interesting and unique style of writing. Her style of writing was
called vernacular. Which means that she wrote how people spoke not how words were support
to be spelled. Hurston based most of her writing on folklore. Many people during this
period considered Hustons writings to be works of the devil. Hurston based most of her
writing on folklore. Hurston based most of her writing on folklore. 
Throughout Hurstons career she wrote many short stories. Her first writing was published
in 1921 in Stylus Magazine. Hurston is the only other writer to ever received as many
awards as the very famous writer Langston Hughes.
A few of Hurstons works are Drenched in Light which was her second story to be published,
She had an autobiography called Dust Tracks on a Road,and many other short stories
entitled sweat and How it Feels to be Colored Me.
I was lucky enough to have read one of those stories. I read Sweat. It was about a black
family living in the south and how they got through life. Now this was interesting
because much of the language she used was vernacular, so at times it was difficult to
understand because they way she wrote words wasn't the way I was used to seeing them, so
at first I wasn't understanding what idea she was trying to write about or what message
she was writing about. 
While doing my research I read a few of her stories. While reading these stories I was
very impressed by how she wrote. It takes a very talented writer to be able to write like
that. Alot of people may be able to write in such a manner but only a select few would be
able to work their way to the top using that style of writing