Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index.
Contents:
"Some other way to try": from defiance to creative submission in Their eyes were watching God / Shawn E. Miller. "I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's emergent female hero / Mary Helen Washington -- "The politics of fiction, anthropology, and the folk: Zora Neale Hurston / Hazel V. Carby -- Language, speech, and difference in Their eyes were watching God / Cynthia Bond -- Naming and power in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Sigrid King -- Laughin' up a world: Their eyes were watching God and (wo)man of words / John Lowe -- "Mink skin or coon hide": the Janus-faced narrative of Their eyes were watching God / Susan Edwards Meisenhelder -- "The porch couldn't talk for looking": voice and vision in Their eyes were watching God / Deborah Clarke -- "The hierarchy itself": Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and the sacrifice of narrative authority / Ryan Simmons -- "Some other way to try": from defiance to creative submission in Their eyes were watching God / Shawn E. Miller.
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