LibGuides: Zora Neale Hurston: Barnard Reads

Barnard Reads

The 2025 Barnard Reads selections are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" and "How it Feels To Be Colored Me". This guide section offers information on key themes, critical scholarship, and audio recitations of each text. Below is the reader which contains both selections:

I love myself when I am laughing . . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader by Zora Neale Hurston (author), Alice Walker (editor)
Call Number: 2019046617

ISBN: 9781936932740

Publication Date: 2020

Originally published in 1979, this reissued classic is a collection of Zora Neale Hurston's finest works, edited by Alice Walker. This anthology was the first to collect the works of Hurston, who was one of the most prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance, and includes fiction, folklore, reportage, and personal essays"