Their Eyes Were Watching God (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Eatonville, Florida
- Principal Characters: Janie Crawford Killicks Starks Woods, Nanny, Joe Starks, Verigible “Teacake” Woods, Pheoby
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Folklore
- Subjects: African Americans, Self-discovery, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Florida, Migrant labor, Floods, Rabies
- Locales: Eatonville, FL
Form and Content
Zora Neale Hurston wrote most of Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937 during a seven-week period she spent in Haiti. Hurston, the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, spent her days gathering anthropological data about life in Haiti, but she spent her evenings working on what was to become her greatest novel. The impetus for such an outpouring of words was a love affair with Albert Price III, a young graduate student of West Indian descent whom she had left in New York. Hurston undoubtedly realized that her relationship with Price was doomed, and thus...
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