Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the complex issues of the novel, Lester provides an excellent resource for students and teachers first approaching the excitement and cultural flavor that define Hurston's novels.\ The casebook is an...
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A rich sourcebook of materials on African-American folk culture, history, and society that illuminates the novel.BooknewsReadings shed light on Hurston's novel. They demonstrate how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism, and present historical, political, and social commentary on the relationships between men and women as well as between blacks and whites. Included are interviews with people living at the time of Hurston's novel's publication, poetry, folk tales, and sermons. The editor is a professor of English at Arizona State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IntroductionSelected Bibliography on Zora Neale HurstonLiterary Analysis"Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things": The Role of Language"Women and Chillun and Chickens and Cows": Male and Female Relations"Find Out if They's White or Black": Race Relations"Singing and Sobbing": The Blues TraditionIndex
\ BooknewsReadings shed light on Hurston's novel. They demonstrate how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism, and present historical, political, and social commentary on the relationships between men and women as well as between blacks and whites. Included are interviews with people living at the time of Hurston's novel's publication, poetry, folk tales, and sermons. The editor is a professor of English at Arizona State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
