02102nam a22002173 44500001000700000010001800007100004100025101000800066102000700074200013200081210003500213215001100248330142200259606003501681606002301716606003101739675002701770700002501797702003301822702002901855355006  a0-06-093141-8  a20130926              frey50          aeng  aUS  aTheir Eyes Were Watching GodfZora Neale Hurstongwith foreword by Mary Helen Washington ; afterword by Henry Lewis Gates, jr.   aS.l.cPerennial Classicsd1999  a219 p.  aAt the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work. Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either: It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk.   aLiteratura americanăxRomane  aRomane psihologice  aLiteratura afroamericană  a821.111(73)-311.1=111   aHurstonbZora Neale   4082aWashingtonbMary Helen   4081aGatesbHenry Lewis