Zora Neale Hurston''s Their Eyes Were Watching God - A Casebook

Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's landmark 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 Hurston's novel.

About the author

Cheryl A. Wall is Professor of English at Rutgers University, where she teaches African-American and American Literature.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Hurston would be pleased by the amount of thought in heir Eyes Were Watching God, a casebook edited by Cheryl A. Wall.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl A. Wall
• Assisted by: Cheryl A. Wall (Editor), Cheryl A. (Associate Professor Wall (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780195121735
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512173-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Casebooks in Criticism; Casebooks in Contemporary Fict; Casebooks in Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form