Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jennings, La Vinia Delois, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurston, Zora Neale--Knowledge--Vodou.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.

Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.

Vodou in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, seven weeks in Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God / La Vinia Delois Jennings

Remembering the sacred tree: black women, nature, and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse and Their eyes were watching God / Rachel Stein

The myth and ritual of Ezili Freda in Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Derek Collins

Vodou imagery, African American tradition, and cultural transformation in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Daphne Lamothe

"Black cat bone and snake wisdom": New Orleanian Hoodoo, Haitian Voodoo and rereading Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Pamela Glenn Menke

"Papa Legba, ouvrier barriere por moi passer": Esu in their eyes and Zora Neale Hurston's diasporic modernism / Edward M. Pavlic

"Come and gaze on a mystery": Oya as rain-bringing "I" of Zora Neale Hurston's Atlantic storm walkings / Keith Cartwright

"Legba in the house": African cosmology in Their eyes were watching God / Mawuena Logan

Voodoo and the black vernacular as weapons of resistance: liberation strategies in Their eyes were watching God / Babacar M'baye

"All those signs of possession": love and death in Their eyes were watching God / Cynthia Ward

Zora Neale Hurston's Vodun-Christianity juxtaposition: theological pluralism in Their eyes were watching God / Nancy Ann Watanabe.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8101-6658-5

OCLC:

867740716