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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... read more
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- Janie Crawford: Add a description of this character.
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Jody
- Joe Starks
- Richard Wright
- James Weldon Johnson
- Pheoby
- Harper
- Robert Hemenway
- Henry Louis Gates
- Ellison
- Hazel Carby
- Toomer
- Freda
- Logan Killicks
- Dunbar
- Mary Helen Washington
- Barbara Johnson
- John Pearson
- Gilroy
- Hattie
- Reed
- A. Brown
- Danto
- Mrs. Turner
- Alice Walker
- Phoeby
- Sam
- Frederick Douglass
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Johnny Taylor
- Annie Tyler
- Mules
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I FIRST ENCOUNTERED Zora Neale Hurston in an Afro-American literature course I took in graduate school.
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- Dewey: 813.52
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