Zora Neale Hurston Haiti And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author : La Vinia Delois Jennings
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810129086

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Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by La Vinia Delois Jennings Pdf

Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region’s transatlantic folk and religious culture; this work grounded what would become her ethnography Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” persuasively demonstrate that Hurston’s study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel. Much in the way that Voudoun and its North American derivative Voodoo are syncretic religions, Hurston’s fiction enacts a syncretic, performative practice of reference, freely drawing upon Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Haitian Voudoun mythologies for its political, aesthetic, and philosophical underpinnings. Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” connects Hurston’s work more firmly to the cultural and religious flows of the African diaspora and to the literary practice by twentieth-century American writers of subscripting in their fictional texts symbols and beliefs drawn from West and Central African religions.

Author : La Vinia Delois Jennings
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810166585

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Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by La Vinia Delois Jennings Pdf

Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region’s transatlantic folk and religious culture; this work grounded what would become her ethnography Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” persuasively demonstrate that Hurston’s study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel. Much in the way that Voudoun and its North American derivative Voodoo are syncretic religions, Hurston’s fiction enacts a syncretic, performative practice of reference, freely drawing upon Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Haitian Voudoun mythologies for its political, aesthetic, and philosophical underpinnings. Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” connects Hurston’s work more firmly to the cultural and religious flows of the African diaspora and to the literary practice by twentieth-century American writers of subscripting in their fictional texts symbols and beliefs drawn from West and Central African religions.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061695130

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Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica—where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s—Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo. An invaluable resource and remarkable guide to Voodoo practices, rituals, and beliefs, it is a travelogue into a dark, mystical world that offers a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies, customs, and superstitions.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0800074149

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African American women in literature
ISBN : 9780195121735

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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Cheryl A. Wall Pdf

The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out-of-print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch-perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters--most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's classic novel over the last quarter century, this Casebook presents contesting viewpoints by Hazel Carby, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Johnson, Carla Kaplan, Daphne Lamothe, Mary Helen Washington, and Sherley Anne Williams. The volume also includes a statement Hurston submitted to a reference book on twentieth-century authors in 1942. As it records the major debates the novel has sparked on issues of language and identity, feminism and racial politics, A Casebook charts new directions for future critics and affirms the classic status of the novel.

Author : Michael Awkward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521387752

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New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Michael Awkward Pdf

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.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780061847394

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Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.

Author : Laura Baskes Litwin
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766031640

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A Reader’s Guide to Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God by Laura Baskes Litwin Pdf

"An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes were watching God for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060916497

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Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.

Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737765748

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Women's Issues in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Gary Wiener Pdf

This compelling volume examines Zora Neale Hurston's life and writings, with a specific look at key ideas related to Their Eyes Were Watching God. Essays discuss a variety of topics, including whether the novel can be viewed as an example for all women, whether it still relevant today, and whether it proves that romantic fantasies cannot last. The book also explores contemporary perspectives on women's issues, such as the idea of women creating their own model of a female hero and the impact of white stereotypes on modern black women.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African American women in literature
ISBN : 9780791097885

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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Harold Bloom Pdf

Critics have suggested that Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God has helped revise a male-dominated literary canon. All-new critical essays touch on subjects such as sight and vision, speech and dialect, and the ways the novel subverts traditional power structures, and more.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061749872

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Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780062748225

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Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 • The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • “A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”—New York Times “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison “Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”—Alice Walker A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

Author : Robert E. Hemenway
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252008073

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Zora Neale Hurston by Robert E. Hemenway Pdf

Traces the life and literary career of Zora Neal Hurston.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: Immerse yourself in the compelling narrative of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston. This classic novel explores the journey of its protagonist, Janie Crawford, in search of identity, love, and self-discovery. Key Aspects of the Book "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Identity and Empowerment: Hurston's novel delves into the themes of self-discovery and empowerment as Janie Crawford navigates her own path in a changing world. Cultural Exploration: The book offers a rich exploration of African American culture, folklore, and community in the early 20th century. Narrative Voice: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is celebrated for its distinctive narrative voice and storytelling style. Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her novel remains a literary treasure in the exploration of African American experiences.