Magnolia Flower
by Hurston, Zora Neale
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Title:
Magnolia Flower
Original Publication:
United States: The Spokesman, 1925.
Credits:
Steve Mattern
Summary:
Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston is a lyrical short story written in the early 20th century. Framed as a folktale told by a river to a brook, it centers on love, freedom, and resistance to oppression in the American South.The river recounts how Bentley, a formerly enslaved man turned domineering patriarch, marries Swift Deer, a...