Zora Neale Hurston's work?

Question

How did Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work impact her fiction? Why did she choose to put the "language and stories of the people" into fiction? What impact does it have on readers today?

Answer 1

It was what she knew. It was what she loved. It was what she embraced and wanted to preserve. There is something very real, very authentic about reading folklore. You can hear the voices of the past. It captures a different time. A different culture. A different experience. It tells you about who you are and where you've been and where you're going.