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Eatonville

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Eatonville

Town in Orange County, central Florida; population (1990) 2,200. It is located 5 km/3 mi north of Orlando. It is one of the oldest black-established US communities. Writer Zora Neale Hurston was born here (1901), and many of her writings reflect life in the area.



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The incorporation of Hurston's Eatonville as well as the growth of other black towns and the injustices suffered by black workers in Florida's phosphate work camps, turpentine mills, and in the railroad industry, are all part of the milieu that nurtured Hurston.
Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern ... by Grant, Nathan / African American Review
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a staging ground in which Hurston can interrogate the problem of gender inequality within the sealed off space of Eatonville and its surrounding environs.
Modernity on a global stage: Hurston's alternative modernism by Sorensen, Leif / MELUS
Their Eyes tells the story of Janie Crawford and the inner strength that preserved her through a first marriage at 16 to a man old enough to be her father and a second to the founder of Eatonville, a bustling town built and inhabited only by blacks.
Look what we've read lately: though our tastes run from inspirational ... by U.S. Catholic
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