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  1. Their Eyes Were Watching God Review: A Captivating Journey

    Their Eyes Were Watching God Review: A Teenager's Journey to Change the Narrative for the Women of Her Society . Recognized as a 20th-century classic of African American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's greatest novel, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' represented one of the earliest voices that called for women's rights and recognition in a society designed for the masculine.

  2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South. In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered ...

  3. The first reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God ranged from positive

    They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Now considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God had to travel a rocky road to immortality. Initial reviews ranged from positive to condescending to downright hostile, as many in the African American ...

  4. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Plot Summary. On a hot summer evening the residents of Eatonville, one of the first towns owned and run by blacks, are shocked to see a bedraggled Janie Sparks walking down the street. Janie is the widow of the town's first mayor, but she left two years ago to marry a man 10 years her junior. Janie greets her old neighbors, but doesn't stop ...

  5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: Book Review

    Highly recommended. According to the ALA website, Their Eyes Were Watching God was "Challenged for sexual explicitness, but retained on the Stonewall Jackson High School's academically advanced reading list in Brentsville, VA (1997). A parent objected to the novel's language and sexual explicitness.". Janie is a woman who learns to ...

  6. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

    THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD. I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine— thought some of her short stories very fine—and feel that this measures up to the promise of the early books. Authentic picture of Negroes, not in relation to white people but to each other. An ageing grandmother marries off her granddaughter almost a child to a middle-aged man for ...

  7. What I Learned About Love from Rereading "Their Eyes Were Watching God

    By Eve Dunbar, Associate Professor of English, Vassar College. This year marks the 80 th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston's best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Though the book is ...

  8. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance , [1] and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny".

  9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    At its core, Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' is a novel about women, their rights in society, and how several of such rights have been hampered by the patriarchal culture. Hurston's book also shines the spotlight on the cultural and folkloric traditions of a certain all-black community, Eatonville, Florida, a town where every family has their unique story of slavery ...

  10. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston. University of Illinois Press, 1991 - Fiction - 231 pages. Initially published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman has, since its reissue in trade paper in 1978, been the most widely readand highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

  11. Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Book review of Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. International Women's Day '24• "Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore." ... Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston International Women's ...

  12. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    When first published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman was generally dismissed by male reviewers. Out of print for almost thirty years, but since its reissue in paperback edition by the University of Illionois Press in 1978, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

  13. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) was the third published book and second novel by Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960), the noted author and ethnographer. It's arguably her best known work and something of a feminist classic. Zora had a dual career as a writer (producing novels, short stories, plays, and essays) and as an anthropologist.

  14. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Publication Date: November 25, 1998; Genres: Fiction; Paperback: 240 pages; Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; ISBN-10: 0060931418; ISBN-13: 9780060931414

  15. K's review of Their Eyes Were Watching God

    5/5: The writings of Zora Neale Hurston loomed large in the literature and history courses at the University of Florida when I was a student there decades ago because many of her original literary documents were donated to the UF libraries. Among the collection are papers that were actually burning in her yard in Ft. Pierce, Florida, shortly after her death in 1960. Fortunately, a law officer ...

  16. Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God

    The Book. There are a number of technical things I'd love to say about Their Eyes Were Watching God, but they all seem superficial to the content and poetry of Hurston's writing.Following the female protagonist Janie Crawford through the course of her life, the full spectrum of grabbing life by its reins contra men, expectations, and even spoiled love get addressed in unique ways.

  17. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God. by Zora Neale Hurston. Under "a blossoming pear tree" in West Florida, sixteen-year-old Janie Mae Crawford dreams of a world that will answer all her questions and waits "for the world to be made." But her grandmother, who has raised her from birth, arranges Janie's marriage to an older local farmer.

  18. Book Review: An analytical look into the feminist themes of Zora Neale

    Book Review: An analytical look into the feminist themes of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ... [Photo of the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God"] Photo by Mckenzie Heileman | The Arbiter. According to a Smithsonian article written by Max Peterson, "A few foundational principles do exist among black feminisms ...

  19. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She wrote four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountains, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Every Tongue Got to Confess, 2001); a work of anthropological research, (Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks ...

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  21. Read the first reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God

    They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Now considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God had to travel a rocky road to immortality. Initial reviews ranged from positive to condescending to downright hostile, as many in the African American ...

  22. ‎Their Eyes Were Watching God on Apple Books

    Their Eyes Were Watching God is a black feminist novel that was generations ahead of its time when it was published in 1937. Although it was initially dismissed by critics, it was rediscovered and championed by Alice Walker in the '70s. Combining '30s Southern dialect with strikingly beautiful descriptions, Hurston's story of self-love ...

  23. Their eyes were watching God: Unveiling the complexities of self ...

    The first line of Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" sets the tone for the entire book by expressing the longing and yearning for something beyond the ordinary. The line ...