Approaches to teaching Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and other works
By: edited by John Lowe.
Contributors: Lowe, John, 1945-
Series: Approaches to teaching world literature; Approaches to teaching world literature
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781603290432; 9781603290449
Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale. -- Study and teaching; Hurston, Zora Neale -- Study and teaching; African Americans in literature -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teaching Their eyes were watching God and the process of canon formation  -- Genevieve West; title: False gods and Caucasian characteristics for all: Hurston's radical vision in Their eyes were watching God  -- Gay Wilentz; title: History, mythology, and the proletarian in Their eyes were watching God  -- Carla Cappetti; title: Laughin' up a world: humor and identity in Their eyes were watching God  -- John Lowe; title: Celebrating bigamy and other outlaw behaviors: Hurston, reputation, and the problems inherent in labeling Janie a feminist  -- Trudier Harris; title: Vehicles for their talents: Hurston and Wright in conflict in the undergraduate literature classroom  -- James C. Hall; title: The seams must show: Their eyes were watching God as an introduction to deconstruction  -- Dana A. Williams; title: Modes of black masculinity in Jona's gourd vine  -- John Lowe; title: Freedom and identity in Hurston's Moses, man of the mountain  -- Carolyn M. Jones; title: Politics of self: individualist perspectives in Seraph on the Suwanee  -- Deborah G. Plant; title: Polyvocality and performance in Mules and men  -- Kimberly J. Banks and Cheryl A. Wall; title: Between mimesis and mimicry: teaching Hurston's Tell my horse  -- Annette Trefzer; title: Telling tales in Dust tracks on a road: Hurston's portrait of an artist  -- Kimberly D. Blockett and Nellie Y. McKay; title: From gilded garden to golden anniversary: teaching Hurston's The gilded six-bits  -- Margaret D. Bauer; title: Africanisms in Hurston's The first one, color struck, and mule bone -- Elizabeth Brown-Guillory.