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Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Author: Neal A Lester
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Readings shed light on Hurston's novel. They demonstrate how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism, and present historical, political, and social commentary on the relationships between men and women as well as between blacks and whites. Included are interviews with people living at the time of Hurston's novel's publication, poetry, folk tales, and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
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Study guides
Named Person: Zora Neale Hurston; Zora Neale Hurston; Zora Neale (1891-1960) Hurston; Zora Neale Hurston
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Neal A Lester
ISBN: 0313302103 9780313302107
OCLC Number: 40567372
Description: xvii, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Literary analysis --
"Lords of sounds and lesser things": the role of language --
"Women and chillun and chickens and cows": relations between men and women --
"Find out if they's white or black": race relations --
"Singing and sobbing": the blues tradition.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Responsibility: Neal A. Lester.

Abstract:

Readings shed light on Hurston's novel. They demonstrate how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism, and present historical, political, and social commentary on the relationships between men and women as well as between blacks and whites. Included are interviews with people living at the time of Hurston's novel's publication, poetry, folk tales, and sermons.

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