| Description |
xi, 276 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Spence collection
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, seven weeks in Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God / La Vinia Delois Jennings -- Remembering the sacred tree: black women, nature, and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse and Their eyes were watching God / Rachel Stein -- The myth and ritual of Ezili Freda in Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Derek Collins -- Vodou imagery, African American tradition, and cultural transformation in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Daphne Lamothe -- "Black cat bone and snake wisdom": New Orleanian Hoodoo, Haitian Voodoo and rereading Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Pamela Glenn Menke -- "Papa Legba, ouvrier barriere por moi passer": Esu in their eyes and Zora Neale Hurston's diasporic modernism / Edward M. Pavlic -- "Come and gaze on a mystery": Oya as rain-bringing "I" of Zora Neale Hurston's Atlantic storm walkings / Keith Cartwright -- "Legba in the house": African cosmology in Their eyes were watching God / Mawuena Logan -- Voodoo and the black vernacular as weapons of resistance: liberation strategies in Their eyes were watching God / Babacar M'baye -- "All those signs of possession": love and death in Their eyes were watching God / Cynthia Ward -- Zora Neale Hurston's Vodun-Christianity juxtaposition: theological pluralism in Their eyes were watching God / Nancy Ann Watanabe. |
| Subject |
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
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Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge -- Vodou.
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Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Vodou in literature.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. |
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ocls womens history art and lit
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| Added Author |
Jennings, La Vinia Delois.
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| ISBN |
9780810129085 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $50.00 |
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0810129086 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022594585 |
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