{"product_id":"9780195121735","title":"Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook","description":"The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's \u003ci\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1937 but subsequently out-of-print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch-perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters--most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's classic novel over the last quarter century , this \u003ci\u003eCasebook\u003c\/i\u003e presents contesting viewpoints by Hazel Carby, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Johnson, Carla Kaplan, Daphne Lamothe, Mary Helen Washington, and Sherley Anne Williams. The volume also includes a statement Hurston submitted to a reference book on twentieth-century authors in 1942. As it records the major debates the novel has sparked on issues of language and identity, feminism and racial politics, \u003ci\u003eA Casebook\u003c\/i\u003e charts new directions for future critics and affirms the classic status of the novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Cheryl A. Wall is Professor of English at Rutgers University, where she teaches African-American and American Literature.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022424752368,"sku":"9780195121735","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195121735_p0.jpg?v=1763663754","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195121735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}