Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston’s
Their Eyes Were Watching God
is one of the rediscovered masterpieces of the American canon. The novel depicts a woman’s struggle for personal awareness and self-empowerment and has inspired many of the African-American women writers who have followed in Hurston’s footsteps. This study guide to the novel features short excerpts of critical essays, an annotated bibliography, an index, and an introductory essay by renowned literature professor Harold Bloom.