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Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance , [ 1 ] and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny".
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 2005 American television drama film based upon Zora Neale Hurston 's 1937 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Darnell Martin, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, Misan Sagay, and Bobby Smith Jr., and produced by Oprah Winfrey 's Harpo Productions (Winfrey served as the host for the broadcast).
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [ 1]: 17 [ 2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [ 3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were ...
African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston explored the effects of the hurricane on black migrant workers in her seminal 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This is her best-known work and it was included on TIME magazine's 2005 list of the '100 best English-language novels published since 1923'. [55] [56]
Hurston was a relative newcomer on the literary scene when this short story was published, but eventually had greater success with her highly acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. "The Gilded Six-Bits" is now published in Hurston's compilation of short stories entitled Spunk in which it is now considered one of her best stories. "The ...
Publication date. 1942. Publication place. United States. ISBN. 978-0-06-200483-3 (Perennial softcover) OCLC. 235998426. Dust Tracks on a Road is the 1942 autobiography of Black American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston .
The 2013 novel Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God is a collection of ten (10) essays from various authors that break down and analyze the literary work of Zora Neale Hurston, and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston's stories follow a light-skinned woman by the name of Janie Crawford.
Zora Neale Hurston, overlooked at the time, was an influence, especially her work, Their Eyes Were Watching God. During her graduate studies, Christian taught English briefly during 1963 and 1964 at both the College of the Virgin Islands and Hunter College.