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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".
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 ...
March 6, 2005. ( 2005-03-06) 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 ...
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 .
Mules and Men is a 1935 autoethnographical collection of African-American folklore collected and written by anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. [ 1] The book explores stories she collected in two trips: one in Eatonville and Polk County, Florida, and one in New Orleans. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Hurston's decision to focus her research on Florida came from a ...
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]
978-0-349-01222-3. Jonah's Gourd Vine is Zora Neale Hurston's 1934 debut novel. [ 1] The novel is a semi-autobiographical novel following John Buddy Pearson and his wife, Lucy. The characters share the same first names as Hurston's parents and make a similar migration from Notasulga, Alabama to Hurston's childhood home, Eatonville, Florida. [ 2]
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston refers to the gossips and storytellers on the porch of Joe Starks' store as the bander log (Hurston's spelling). The novel's protagonist, Janie, passes the store on her way back into town after a long absence.