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

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Jennings, La Vinia Delois
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.