{"id":973,"date":"2017-07-18T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/?p=973"},"modified":"2020-04-15T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:38:56","slug":"hurston-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/hurston-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Emory students connect writer Zora Neale Hurston&#8217;s life to locations with interactive map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/eng210zoranealehurston\/map-of-hurstons-places\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interactive map<\/a> connecting locations with the work and life of\u00a0renowned American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston is featured as part of a special class project developed by Emory College of Arts and Sciences students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Megan Slemons, a GIS librarian with the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalscholarship.emory.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emory Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a> (ECDS), helped the students develop the map as part of their\u00a0spring semester English 210 class, which also created the exhibition, &#8220;&#8216;Let the People Sing&#8217;: Communities Reflected Through Art in the Tradition of Zora Neale Hurston,&#8221; now on display in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts&#8217; Stipe Gallery at Emory University through Sept. 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Hurston&#8217;s art, which celebrated the African American culture of the rural South, is associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her best-known work, &#8220;Their Eyes Were Watching God,&#8221; is regarded as a seminal work in both African American literature and women&#8217;s literature.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Emory Report story:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2017\/07\/er_hurston_exhibit\/campus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, students create art to reveal communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interactive map connecting locations with the work and life of\u00a0renowned American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston is featured&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2510,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67],"tags":[75,202,265,18,166,167,264],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-digital-humanities","tag-digital-scholarship","tag-esri","tag-gis","tag-mapping","tag-maps","tag-zora-neale-hurston"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/files\/2017\/07\/zoranealehurstonmap004.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ecds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}