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:Harpercollins

作者:Hurston, Zora Neale

页数:256

出版时间:2000-10

价格:$ 24.86

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780060199494

"Their Eyes Were Watching God, " an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years.This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates, boldly and brilliantly, African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a black woman, who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard.Originally published in 1937, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" met significant commercial but divided critical acclaim. Somewhat forgotten after her death, Zora Neale Hurston was rediscovered by a number of black authors in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and reintroduced to a greater readership by Alice Walker in her 1972 essay "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," written for Ms. magazine. Long out of print, the book was reissued after a petition was circulated at the Modern Language Association Convention in 1975, and nearly three decades later Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered a seminal novel of American fiction.With a new foreword by the celebrated novelist Edwidge Danticat -- author of "Eyes, Breath, Memory; The Farming of Bones;" and "Krik?Krak " -- this edition of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" commemorates the singular, inimitable voice in America's literary canon and highlights its unusual publication history.

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美国这个思想自由国度历来不缺乏描写黑人的文学作品，十九世纪斯托夫人的《汤姆叔叔的小屋》吹响了废除黑奴的号角，问世后一版再版，深受好评。林肯总统在接见斯托夫人时幽默风趣地称赞她是“写了一本书，酿成了一场大战的小妇人。”二十世纪有马克•吐温的《哈克贝利•费...  

黑人文学老师要求读的，班里统一复印的老师的原版。不明白书名的用意。书里只一处写到了Their eyes were watching god ，在chapter 18 "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god" 这是在他们逃离飓风时的一段。其实全书主要写了主人公Jaine ...  

黑人文学老师要求读的，班里统一复印的老师的原版。不明白书名的用意。书里只一处写到了Their eyes were watching god ，在chapter 18 "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god" 这是在他们逃离飓风时的一段。其实全书主要写了主人公Jaine ...