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Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God

Title: Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God [electronic resource] / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings.
Publication: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2013.

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Jennings, La Vinia Delois.

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1 online resource (xi, 276 p.)

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Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God (Online)

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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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