Dust Tracks on a Road

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Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s 1942 autobiography, chronicling her life from a Southern Black childhood to her emergence as a prominent writer and anthropologist.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiography
book
author Zora Neale Hurston
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception mixed at time of publication
reappraised positively in late 20th century
depicts Hurston's anthropological fieldwork
Hurston's childhood in Eatonville
Hurston's education
Hurston's literary career
genre autobiography
memoir
hasISBN 9780060916503
hasParatext introduction by later editors in modern editions
hasPerspective first-person narrative
hasRevisedEdition posthumous editions with restored passages
includedIn African American literature canon
influenced African American autobiography
Black feminist literary criticism
language English
libraryOfCongressClassification PS3515.U789 Z468
literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
mediaType print
notableFor controversial treatment of race and politics
portrayal of Black Southern culture
oclcNumber 230636
pageCount approximately 300
publicationYear 1942
publisher J. B. Lippincott & Co.
surface form: J. B. Lippincott Company
relatedWork Mules and Men
Tell My Horse
Their Eyes Were Watching God
setting Southern United States
surface form: American South

Eatonville, Florida, United States
surface form: Eatonville, Florida
subject African American women
Southern Black life
Zora Neale Hurston
anthropology
race relations in the United States
theme cultural memory
gender and autonomy
individualism
race and identity
self-definition
timePeriodCovered early 20th century
late 19th century

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