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Published in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston's //Their Eyes Were Watching God//, the first female novel of affirmation, is now considered an American classic. Hurston presents Janie's quest for identity and her search for love in racist and sexist society, integrating southern Black dialect, metaphoric language, and elements of the oral tradition. In archetypal tradition, Hurston incorporates structures of myth and allegory in her novel. As an ethnographer/folklorist as well as a writer, Hurston's work is rich with the culture and language of the Southern black folk. In this project, you will explore these rich traditions and you will analyze Hurston's literary work. || media type="custom" key="5595767" align="center"
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//Images from// //The American Memory Collection: [|Creative Americans by Carl Van Vechten]//, [|The Florida Folklife Collection], and //[|Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html]//