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Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
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Neal A. Lester
Book Code: GR0210
ISBN: 0-313-30210-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30210-7
200 pages, figures, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/1999
List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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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
LC Card Number: 98-55342
LCC Class: PS3515
Dewey Class: 813
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