The Temple of My Familiar | Literary Precedents
The Temple of My Familiar is a unique novel, with few literary precedents. Much like Lissie's dream familiar, it is not recognizably bird, fish, or reptile. Nevertheless, Walker would claim to owe a debt to Zora Neale Hurston to whom she has often referred as her literary foremother. Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is also concerned with the search for identity in an oppressive and exploitative world.
While both novels are concerned with the same struggle, however, the solutions are different, Hurston's character achieves her identity by adhering...
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