Spunk - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance Hurston Zora Neale
Spunk - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance Hurston Zora Neale Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston explores a battle between physical and…
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Spunk - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance Hurston Zora Neale
Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston explores a battle between physical and moral strength in this pocket-sized short story, 'Spunk'.Set in an all-Black community in rural America, this short story poses the question of whether moral strength is more powerful than physical strength. He is unafraid of anything and when he openly flaunts his affair with Lena Kanty, Joe Kanty's wife, the other men in the neighbourhood are afraid to confront him. Spunk Banks is described as a 'giant'.
Undeterred, Spunk shoots Joe dead and moves in with his widow. Word of the affair gets back to Joe, who decides to threaten Spunk with a razor. But when a bobcat begins to circle their house, Spunk becomes convinced that Joe has returned from the dead to avenge him.Zora Neale Hurston's short story was published in the Opportunity, A Journal of Negro Life in 1925, and