Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Variations in Spelling xi Introduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Seven Weeks in Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God La Vinia Delois Jennings 3 1 Remembering the Sacred Tree: Black Women, Nature, and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse and Their Eyes Were Watching God Rachel Stein 29 2 The Myth and Ritual of Ezili Freda in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Derek Collins 49 3 Vodou Imagery, African American Tradition, and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Daphne Lamothe 69 4 “Black Cat Bone and Snake Wisdom”: New Orleanian Hoodoo, Haitian Voodoo, and Rereading Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Pamela Glenn Menke 95 5 “Papa Legba, Ouvrier Barriere Por Moi Passer”: Esu in Their Eyes and Zora Neale Hurston’s Diasporic Modernism Edward M. Pavlić 117 6 “Come and Gaze on a Mystery”: Oya as Rain-Bringing “I” of Zora Neale Hurston’s Atlantic Storm Walkings Keith Cartwright 153 7 “Legba in the House”: African Cosmology in Their Eyes Were Watching God Mawuena Logan 175 8 Voodoo and the Black Vernacular as Weapons of Resistance: Liberation Strategies in Their Eyes Were Watching God Babacar M’Baye 191 9 “All Those Signs of Possession”: Love and Death in Their Eyes Were Watching God Cynthia Ward 215 10 Zora Neale Hurston’s Vodun-Christianity Juxtaposition: Theological Pluralism in Their Eyes Were Watching God Nancy Ann Watanabe 237 Contributors 257 Index 261 ...