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Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Van Pelt Library PS3515.U789 T639 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- African American women in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Chelsea House, 2010.
- Contents:
- Biographical sketch
- The story behind the story
- List of characters
- Summary and analysis
- Critical views
- Mary Helen Washington on Hurston's failure to create a genuinely liberated female voice
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. contrasts Zora Neale Hurston with Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison
- Neal A. Lester on ebonics, or Black vernacular English
- Philip Goldstein on comparing Pride and prejudice with Their eyes were watching God
- Todd McGowan on liberation and domination
- Pamela Glenn Menke on voodoo elements in the novel
- Diana Miles on female identity and rebirth
- Shawn E. Miller on conflicting readings of the novel's conclusion
- Kerry Emanuel on the hurricane
- DoVeanna S. Fulton on the legacy of slavery
- Stephen Spencer on Hurston's contribution to the canon
- Meta G. Carstarphen on fantasy and reality in the novel
- Works by Zora Neale Hurston.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781604135718
- 1604135719
- OCLC:
- 290487274
- Publisher Number:
- 99938009359
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