The Compelling Ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

• Published in: The Southern literary journal Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 36 - 50
• Main Author: Ramsey, William M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill, NC Dept. of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 22.09.1994; University of North Carolina, Department of English; University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of English; The University of North Carolina Press
• Subjects: 20th century; African American authors; African American culture; African American literature; African American writers; Ambivalence; American fiction; American literature; Anonymous writers. Authors; Bourgeois; Communities; English speaking literatures; Feminism; Folk culture; French speaking and English speaking literatures; History and sciences of litterature; History of literature; Hurston, Zora Neale; Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960); Literary criticism; Love; Men; Novels; Portrayals; Textual criticism; United States; Century 20; USA; United States; Inspiration; Ambivalence; Biography; Writing; Criticism; Writer; Hurston (Z. N.); Ambiguity
• ISSN: 0038-4291; 2470-9506; 1534-1461; 2474-8102

Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is an inventive, original and provocatively compelling novel, but it is not a fully finished or conceptually realized text. The novel was written in unusual circumstances.