Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| Editor:
| Jennings, La Vinia Delois |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2908-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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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. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" persuasively demonstrate that Hurston's study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization,...
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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. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" persuasively demonstrate that Hurston's study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel.