ID - 1423975 TI - New essays on Their eyes were watching God PY - 1990 VL - *12 SN - 0521387752 0521383781 0511570341 9780511570346 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Thematology KW - Psychological study of literature KW - Hurston, Zora Neale KW - African American women in literature KW - Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur KW - Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature KW - Noires américaines dans la littérature KW - Hurston, Zora Neale. KW - Afro-American women in literature KW - African American women in literature. KW - Noires américaines dans la littérature KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1423975 AB - After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic, ideological, and aesthetic complexity. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel, from the largely dismissive reviews accompanying the novel's publication in 1937, to factors which helped revive interest in Hurston in the 1960s, to its recent establishment as a central American novel. The other essays in the volume discuss Hurston's sophisticated use of black folklore, the autobiographical resonances in the novel, Hurston's definition of the relationship between black artists and the Afro-American masses, and the usefulness of feminist modes of inquiry. This collection offers fresh insight for approaching Hurston's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community. ER -