Critical Insights: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Critical Insights: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author: Robert C. Evans

Publisher: Salem Press

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781642657463

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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, although well received in its own day, was largely forgotten until the 1970s. The same thing was true of its author, who died in abject poverty. Fortunately, both this novel and most of Hurston's other works were eventually rediscovered, and Their Eyes is now seen as one of the most important books in twentieth-century American literature. This volume explores the book from numerous and diverse perspectives, including race, gender, and class; place it in a variety of historical and intellectual contexts; and give full attention to its remarkable artistry.

Zora neale Hurston
Zora neale Hurston

Author: Henry L. Gates

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Published: 2000-02-11

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781567430288

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Zora Neale Hurston(1891 -- 1960) Of the various signs that the study of literature in America has been transformed, none is more salient than is the resurrection and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston. Twenty years ago, Hurston's work was largely out-of-print, her literary legacy alive only to a tiny, devoted band of readers who were often forced to photocopy her works if they were to be taught ... Today her works are central to the canon of African-American, American, and Women's literatures ... The author of four novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937),Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); two books of folklore -- Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938); an autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road (1942); and over 50 short stories, essays, and plays, Hurston was one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors for the two decades between 1925 and 1945. -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author: Michael Awkward

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780521387750

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An analysis of the literary values of Hurston's novel, as well as its reception--from largely dismissive reviews in 1937, through a revival of interest in the 1960s and its recent establishment as a major American novel.

A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0062374265

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A leading novel in the canon of African American literature—this free teaching guide for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice. “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.”—Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African American literature.

Critical Insights: in Cold Blood
Critical Insights: in Cold Blood

Author: Truman Capote

Publisher: Salem Press

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781642656619

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Truman Capote's compelling and harrowing account of the murder of the Clutter family and the subsequent trial and execution of the killers made a huge impact when first published in 1965, and continues to provoke controversy, find readers, and generate critical debate. This volume offers a rich range of perspectives on Capote's major work, exploring it as a "non-fiction novel" and as a "true crime" story, tracing its reception by reviewers, critics and the general public, discussing its impact on the real-life community and individuals it describes, and examining the crucial ethical, judicial and penal issues it raises.

Cultural Sites of Critical Insight
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight

Author: Angela L. Cotten

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0791480577

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Bringing together criticism on both African American and Native American women writers, this book offers fresh perspectives on art and beauty, truth, justice, community, and the making of a good and happy life. The essays draw on interdisciplinary, feminist, and comparative methods in the works of writers such as Toni Morrison, Leslie Silko, Alice Walker, Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, Luci Tapahonso, Phillis Wheatley, and Sherley Anne Williams, making them more accessible for critical consideration in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, and critical theory. The contributors formulate unique frameworks for interpreting the multiple levels of complex, cultural play between Native American and African American women writers in America, and pave the way for innovative hermeneutic possibilities for reassessing writers of both traditions.

Wrapped in Rainbows
Wrapped in Rainbows

Author: Valerie Boyd

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0684842300

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Traces the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures.

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1438113617

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Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her most famous novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God", a classic in the African-American canon, depicts a woman's struggle for self-empowerment. This work takes a critical look at Hurston's work and its influence on contemporary themes, such as race and gender in American society.

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Author: Yuval Taylor

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0393243923

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A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.