Zora Neale Hurston, is often considered as the “literary ancestor” of contemporary African American writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Terry MacMillan was a renowned writer and anthropologist (Rayson, 1974). Since her writing gained recognition among critiques, it is often referred to as the “written oral art” (in Garrigues, 2003: 23). She was born in 1989 in Alabama. Her writing was undoubtedly shaped by the community in which she spent her childhood. More importantly, she was a daughter of two former slaves. In order to pursue her career as a writer, Hurston worked as a maid and as an actress. Hurston may also be considered as an anthropologist (Garrigues, 2003). As Lisa Garrigues states, in order to “gather folklore and record
