Hurston, Corrected
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Hurston, Corrected by DuchessCadbury
Fandoms: Original Work, Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
07 Jul 2025
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Hurston, Corrected is a slightly satirical tale of what happens when a black woman genius’ talent is called into question by a white graduate student. In 2011 Victoria Conrad wrote a graduate thesis asserting had Zora Neale Hurston written her folktales in standard English, she and her works would be as popular as The Brothers Grimm. When the thesis is criticized as a devaluation and dismissive of a black woman’s art, Victoria’s best friend Marion Johnson comes to her rescue. Marion serves as the “black friend” vouching for Victoria during a 4-month media storm that eventually leaves both women publicly humiliated and “canceled”.
The novel begins five years later when Seattle journalist Lloyd Garrison is assigned to interview Marion, who has returned to the states and is attempting to reenter the public discourse as an advocate for art created by Black women. Embarrassed that his social justice journalism training is being wasted working on an upper-class lifestyle publishing company, Lloyd decides to defy his editor’s suggestion that his article on Marion should remain a puff-piece, and instead writes a manifesto on reclaiming Black art from a white audience’s gaze.
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- Part 1 of Hurston, Corrected