Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
Subtitle: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
By: Neal A. Lester.
Series: The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale. -- Sources; African Americans -- Florida -- Social life and customs -- Sources; African Americans -- Florida -- Folklore -- Sources; African American women in literature; Florida -- Race relations -- Sources
Description: Readings 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-171) and index.