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 Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Description: ISBN 0060931418 / Genre: Fiction Newest Review: ... story centres around Janie - we meet her on her return to Eatonville and sit with her friend Pheoby as Janie begins to ... more  ... recount her life - from her violent origins to the teenager living with a grandmother, a scared old woman who in a fit of pique has Janie married off to an old farmer after spotting her kissing a boy over the gate. The old woman then promptly goes and dies, leaving Janie with a man she doesn't care for, making her staying with him impossible to her young heart full of idealist dreams of what love should be. She runs off with Jody, a younger man who promises her the world, but proves to value her only as a pretty troph...more |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God (560 words)
by melee679 - written on 08/03/05 (Very useful, 156 readings)
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This book, although little known in this country, is something of a classic in America - covered in schools and universities as an example not just of first-rate literature, but held up as a forerunner to the black female writer of today. Zora Neale-Hurston was from a very different time to our own. First published in 1937, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' was her second novel, and provides a snapshot of the burgeoning beginnings of free black towns - the struggle of a race to set itself up on an equal footing with the white man, while retaining a strong sense of its identity and origins. But more than that, this book is about women. How they live and love, and ...
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