Introduction

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Zora Neale Hurston on Zora Neale Hurston

Encountering Zora Neale Hurston

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Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Barbara Johnson

Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text

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The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston

Hazel V. Carby

The Erotics of Talk: ``That Oldest Human Longing'' in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Carla Kaplan

Vodou Imagery, African American Tradition, and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Daphne Lamothe

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