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Title Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge -- Vodou
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
SUBJECT Hurston, Zora Neale fast
Their eyes were watching God (Hurston, Zora Neale) fast
Subject Vodou in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Vodou
Vodou in literature
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
English.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Jennings, La Vinia Delois
ISBN 9780810166585
0810166585