Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
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Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
（The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series）
Greenwood Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the complex issues of the novel, Lester provides an excellent resource for students and teachers first approaching the excitement and cultural flavor that define Hurston's novels.
The casebook is an encyclopedia of African American folk culture that simultaneously presents historical, political, and social commentary on the relationships between men and women and between blacks and whites in America. Documents include interviews with people living in the South at the time of the novel's publication, poetry, rap, folktales, and sermons. Also included are original materials on ebonics, minstrel songs, the blues tradition, the novel in theatrical and dance performance, and materials on Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, Florida.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Selected Bibliography on Zora Neale Hurston
Literary Analysis
"Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things": The Role of Language
"Women and Chillun and Chickens and Cows": Male and Female Relations
"Find Out if They's White or Black": Race Relations
"Singing and Sobbing": The Blues Tradition
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"