Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men along with fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God and dance, assembling a folk-based performance group that recreated her Southern tableau, with one performance on Broadway.Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago.In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction but was assigned by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor.Hurston also contributed to Woman in the Suwanee County Jail, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie

出版者:Harper Perennial Modern Classics

作者:Zora Neale Hurston

页数:227

出版时间:1998-12

价格:GBP 7.79

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780060931414

图书标签:英文原版小说AfricanAmericanNovel美国外国文学美國黑人小說Hurston西方文学

Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

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黑人女作家佐拉笔下的女主角珍妮一直在寻觅自己的爱情，不由让我想起之前很喜欢的一部作品《被嫌弃的松子的一生》，同样是一个女人追逐爱，与男人纠葛、寻爱不得的一生，《他们眼望上苍》因其时代背景和种族歧视的刻画，比之《松子》中的性格悲剧要来得更深刻。 第一个男人洛根...

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They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

弱者拥有黝黑的眼睛，在洪水猛兽的灾难里企图透过黑暗寻找自己，寻找公平，寻找光明。灾难是寻觅的必经之路，是灾难让爱，光明，黑暗，通通显影。

"two things everybody got to do for themselves.They got to go to God, and they got to find out about living for themselves."

弱者拥有黝黑的眼睛，在洪水猛兽的灾难里企图透过黑暗寻找自己，寻找公平，寻找光明。灾难是寻觅的必经之路，是灾难让爱，光明，黑暗，通通显影。