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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Published1937
Pages228
Open Library4.2 / 5
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Excerpt

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.

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  • United States

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Subjects

  • African American women
  • Fiction
  • Psychology
  • Self-realization
  • Florida, fiction
  • African americans, fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • African american women in literature
  • African americans
  • Allegories

People

  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Jerry Pinkney
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