Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

At it’s surface, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is a novel about self-discovery. Although upon further analysis, the existence of larger themes such as womanhood, feminism and the race and gender relations that existed within...

Gender and sexuality have become so deeply rooted into society that we apply them to most anything without ever giving it a second thought. The portrayals of gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Bharati Mukherjee’s...

James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” depicts the psychosexual methodologies used by a white racist sheriff who both fears and fetishizes African Americans. Through the character of Jesse, Baldwin is stating that the sexual myth of black male...

The institution of marriage has changed over the last century from a patriarchal control construct to a more open organization. The books Their Eyes were Watching God and Stranger in a Strange Land both attack the institution of traditional...

The main characters in the novels Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe in 1958, and Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937 are Okonkwo and Janie Mae Crawford. The countries in which they reside (Nigeria and The...

Zora Neale Hurston’s well-acclaimed novel Their Eyes Were Watching God includes many controversial characters with ambiguous ethics. Janie Crawford’s lovers have been continuously analyzed by literary scholars such as Janice Knudsen and Mesa-El...