| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge -- Vodou.
|
|
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
|
|
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
|
|
Vodou in literature.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Jennings, La Vinia Delois, editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, c2013 xi, 276 pages 9780810129085 (DLC) 2012050069 |
| ISBN |
9780810129085 |
|
9780810166585 (electronic bk.) |
|
