Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 231 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First HarperCollins hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, 2000.

Summary:

An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years.

Contents:

Plot Overview

Character List

Analysis of Major Characters

Janie

Tea Cake

Jody Starks

Themes, Motifs & Symbols

Language: Speech and Silence

Power and Conquest as Means to Fulfillment

Love and Relationships Versus Independence

Community

Race and Racism

The Folklore Quality of Religion

Hair

The Pear Tree and the Horizon

The Hurricane

Important Quotations Explained

Study Questions & Essay Topics.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0060199490

9780060199494

OCLC:

44594071

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