New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
Title | New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Awkward |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521387750 |
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.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Title | Their Eyes Were Watching God PDF eBook |
Author | Zora Neale Hurston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780800074142 |
New essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
Title | New essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God PDF eBook |
Author | ANON. |
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Release | 1990 |
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Critical Insights: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Title | Critical Insights: Their Eyes Were Watching God PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Evans |
Publisher | Salem Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2020-12 |
Genre | African American women in literature |
ISBN | 9781642657463 |
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, although well received in its own day, was largely forgotten until the 1970s. The same thing was true of its author, who died in abject poverty. Fortunately, both this novel and most of Hurston's other works were eventually rediscovered, and Their Eyes is now seen as one of the most important books in twentieth-century American literature. This volume explores the book from numerous and diverse perspectives, including race, gender, and class; place it in a variety of historical and intellectual contexts; and give full attention to its remarkable artistry.
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
Title | New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Awkward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 1990 |
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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Title | Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl A. Wall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | African American women in literature |
ISBN | 0195121732 |
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.
Changing My Mind
Title | Changing My Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Zadie Smith |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1101151463 |
"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.