Preface to Mules and men / Franz Boas --
A study in race relations : a meeting with Zora Neale Hurston / Nick Aaron Ford --
One of the new realists / Benjamin Brawley --
A perfect book of entertainment in herself / Langston Hughes --
Ships at a distance : the meaning of Their eyes were watching God / Robert Bone --
A personality sketch / Fannie Hurst --
The spirituality of Jonah's gourd vine / Larry Neal --
Their eyes were watching God / Roger Rosenblatt --
The outsider / Addison Gayle, Jr. --
Zora Neale Hurston's America / Theresa R. Love --
A cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker --
Crayon enlargements of life ; That which the soul lives by / Robert E. Hemenway --
Janie's burden / Sherley Anne Williams.
On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design ; Looking for Zora / Alice Walker --
A woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington --
The beginnings of self-realization / Michael G. Cooke --
Moses, man of the mountain : a study of power / Blyden Jackson --
Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in Their eyes were watching God / Barbara Johnson.
The work in the writer / Harold Bloom --
Biography of Zora Neale Hurston / Norma Jean Lutz --
Voices of independence and community : the prose of Zora Neale Hurston / Amy Sickels --
Crayon enlargements of life / Robert E. Hemenway --
Zora Neale Hurston : changing her own words / Cheryl A. Wall.
From the Book - New edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
The folk preacher and folk sermon form in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Deborah G. Plant --
Zora Neale Hurston : a voice of her own/An entertainment in herself / Daniel J. Sundahl --
"'... Ah said Ah'd save de text for you'" : recontextualizing the sermon to tell (her) story in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Dolan Hubbard --
The compelling ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / William M. Ramsey --
Projecting gender : personification in the works of Zora Neale Hurston / Gordon E. Thompson --
From mule bones to funny bones : the plays of Zora Neale Hurston / John Lowe --
Conflict and resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Susan E. Meisenhelder --
Zora Neale Hurston / Michael Awkward and Michelle Johnson --
Hitting "A straight lick with a crooked stick" : Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston's whiteface novel / Claudia Tate --
Vodou imagery, African-American tradition and cultural transformation in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Daphne Lamothe --
Socioeconomics in selected short stories of Zora Neale Hurston / Laurie Champion --
"The porch couldn't talk for looking" : voice and vision in Their eyes were watching God / Deborah Clarke --