Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Language: English
Published by Modern Language Association of America, 2009
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- Title
- Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
- Author
- Lowe, John [Editor]
- Publisher
- Modern Language Association of America
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1603290443
- ISBN 13
- 9781603290449
- Item weight
- 11 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x9
Considering the ubiquity of Hurston's work in the nation's classrooms, there have been surprisingly few book-length studies of it. This volume helps instructors situate Hurston's work against the various cultures that engendered it and understand her success as short story writer, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Part 1 outlines Hurston's publication history and the reemergence of the author on the literary scene and into public consciousness. Part 2 first concentrates on various approaches to teaching Their Eyes, looking at Hurston's radical politics and use of folk culture and dialect; contemporary reviews of the novel, including contrary remarks by Richard Wright; Janie's search for identity in Hurston's all-black hometown, Eatonville; and the central role of humor in the novel. The essays in part 2 then take up Hurston's other, rarely taught novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine,Moses, Man of the Mountain, and Seraph on the Suwanee. Also examined here are Hurston's anthropological works, chief among them Mules and Men, a staple for many years on American folklore syllabi, and Tell My Horse, newly reconsidered in Caribbean and postcolonial studies.
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About the Author
John Lowe is professor of English and comparative literature at Louisiana State University, where he directs the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies and teaches courses on African American, southern, and ethnic literature and theory. He has published Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy and edited Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach; The Future of Southern Letters; Conversations with Ernest Gaines; and Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina. He is writing "Calypso Magnolia: The Caribbean Side of the South."
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