Research Catalog

Title

Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their eyes were watching God / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings.

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jennings, La Vinia Delois

Description

xi, 276 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Hurston, Zora Neale > Knowledge > Vodou
• Hurston, Zora Neale > Criticism and interpretation
• Vodou in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780810129085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810129086 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012050069

OCLC

• 816564646
• SCSB-11868767

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library