كانت أعينهم تحدّق في الله (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

مقدمة

Hurston wrote the novel in about seven weeks during her fieldwork in Haiti and published it in 1937. Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville and tells her friend Pheoby her story: a marriage arranged by her grandmother Nanny, who calls Black women “de mule uh de world”, a second marriage to the ambitious mayor Joe Starks, and a freer life with the younger Tea Cake in the Everglades that ends in tragedy after a hurricane. The book weaves the folklore Hurston had collected into the talk on the store porch. Richard Wright and Alain Locke faulted it for lacking social protest; since its rediscovery in the 1970s it has become a much-read text of African American literature and of Black feminist criticism.

مزيد من أعمال زورا نيل هيرستون

• 1935بغال ورجال (Mules and Men)