Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
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
Aufsatzsammlung
xvii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780313302107, 0313302103
40567372
Literary analysis
"Lords of sounds and lesser things": the role of language
"Women and chillun and chickens and cows": relations between men and women
"Find out if they's white or black": race relations
"Singing and sobbing": the blues tradition