| FB-10544-70 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Robert E. Hemenway | A Critical Study of Zora Neale Hurston | 9/1/1970 - 6/30/1971 | $9,500.00 | Robert | E. | Hemenway | | | | University of Kansas, Lawrence | Lawrence | KS | 66045-7505 | USA | 1970 | Literature, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 9500 | 0 | 9500 | 0 |
Book of literary criticism about Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), an important black novelist and folklorist. Though a significant author of the period, author of an autobiography, three novels, three books of folklore and anthropology, and many short stories and essays, she is almost completely unknown to the general reading public and even to students of American literature. Symptomatic of the general obscurity of black authors and artists in US. Black literature reflects a signficant portion of the American experience and merits closer study for a fuller understanding of American life. |
| FT-*0838-80 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Robert E. Hemenway | Getting Over: The Oral Tradition in Afro-American Fiction | 5/1/1980 - 9/30/1980 | $2,500.00 | Robert | E. | Hemenway | | | | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington | KY | 40506-0004 | USA | 1980 | American Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 2500 | 0 | 2500 | 0 | No project description available |
| RO-11955-73 | Research Programs: Basic Research | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Zora Neale Hurston: Black Novelist and Folklorist | 9/1/1974 - 5/31/1975 | $15,556.00 | Robert | | Hemenway | | | | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington | KY | 40506-0004 | USA | 1973 | Folklore and Folklife | Basic Research | Research Programs | 15556 | 0 | 15556 | 0 |
Request funds for 1) to spend Fall, 1974 at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University completing research for 4 of the 8 chapters of a major literary biography of Zora Neale Hurston, the Black novelist and folklorist. The nature of the research and subsequent writing will concentrate on 1) an exploration of the problem of acceptance of Black American folklore and how the public's reluctance to accept was a discouraging influence on Hurston's career; the special function of Afro-Caribbean folklore in Hurston's work; the function of the Moses legend in Afro-American folklore and Hurston's use of it. |