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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge -- Vodou
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
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SUBJECT |
Hurston, Zora Neale fast |
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Their eyes were watching God (Hurston, Zora Neale) fast |
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Vodou in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Vodou
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Vodou in literature
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Languages & Literatures.
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American Literature.
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English.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Jennings, La Vinia Delois
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ISBN |
9780810166585 |
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0810166585 |
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