Their Eyes Were Watching God

佐拉•尼尔•赫斯顿（1891-1960），美国黑人女作家，被誉为“南方的天才”。在美国第一个黑人小城伊顿维尔，赫斯顿度过了无忧无虑的童年；1918年进入霍华德大学就读文学系，1925年来到黑人文学的中心纽约，开始创作生涯，并成为哈莱姆文艺复兴运动的活跃分子。赫斯顿毕生致力于保持黑人文化传统、探寻黑人完整的生命价值。她收集整理了黑人民间故事集《骡与人》、《告诉我的马》，还写作了四部小说：《他们眼望上苍》、《约拿的葫芦藤》、《摩西，山之人》、《苏旺尼的六翼天使》，一部自传《大路上的尘迹》，以及一些短篇小说。赫斯顿在小说中大量使用黑人口语，以诗一般的语言去表达黑人语言之美。她的作品并不着眼于种族斗争，而是致力于表现：同其他人种一样，黑人也拥有生活的丰富性和对幸福的追求，也会面对生活中必然存在的不幸和悲剧。

出版者:Harper Perennial Modern Classics

作者:Zora Neale Hurston

页数:256

出版时间:2006-5-30

价格:USD 16.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780061120060

图书标签:美国文学美国Hurston小说Fiction社会观察黑人英文原版

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God , is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published -- perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

读后感

译后记：当代黑人女性文学的先行者 王家湘 佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿出生于1891年，在美国第一个黑人小城伊顿维尔度过了童年。她的父亲是小城的市长，曾做过小学教师的母亲总是鼓励孩子们“跳向太阳”——要有远大志向。伊顿维尔没有一个白人，因此赫斯顿的童年是在没有种族...  

这本书讲述的是一位黑人女孩珍妮，通过向好友费奥比回忆自己的前半生经历，儿童时期和外婆的生活，成年后的三次婚姻，通过珍妮的回忆，来呈现一个黑人女人寻找自我的过程。作者佐拉•尼尔•赫斯顿是美国黑人女作家，她以文字的形式，致力于呈现黑人的文化和女性意识地觉醒...  

Their Eyes Were Watching God perfectly combines folklore and literature in the theme of Black and female empowerment. The folklore elements were so well immersed that they could easily go unnoticed. According to Claire Crabtree, there are four major aspects...  

用户评价

"What? How? Why? ...Oh to be a pear tree - any tree in bloom! ...She was sixteen... Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made."

Janie's finding her identity in another man is not something I'm approved of, but nevertheless, 我相信了“soul mate”的存在。

黑人英语像火星文。

语言很有意思，觉醒浅了点。3.5

黑人文学里的对话真的品不到 无论对过去还是现在来说 Janie的塑造是很成功的 “It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.”