The Beaches Museum will host a Boardwalk lecture, entitled “Zora Neale Hurston and the Pleasure of Her Company,” by Dr. Tru Leverette, associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. The event will take place 6p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25.
Zora Neale Hurston is known most widely for her literary legacy, which includes the now famous novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Perhaps less known are her rebelliousness and her iconoclastic nature in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and into the early Civil Rights Movement.
As a black woman artist, folklorist and anthropologist in the early 20th century, Hurston blurred the lines between scientific objectivity and imaginative subjectivity. She was a boundary breaker and a person whose life challenged ideas about what women of her time could accomplish.
Leverette teaches African-American literature and serves as director of African-American/African Diaspora Studies. Her research interests broadly include race, gender, and identity in literature and culture.
This event will be held in the historic Beaches Museum Chapel and is free to Beaches Museum members, with a suggested $5 donation for non-members.
Visit the Beaches Museum website www.beachesmuseum.org or call (904) 241-5657 for more information.
