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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
WITH A FOREWORD BY MARY HELEN WASHINGTON
AND AN AFTERWORD BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
PERENNIAL
CLASS ICS
A hardcover edition of this book was originally published by J. B. Lippincott, Inc.
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD. Copyright 1937 by Zora Neale Hurston. Renewed 1965 by John C. Hurston and Joel Hurston. Foreword copyright 1990 by Mary Helen Washington. Afterword, Selected Bibliography, and Chronology copyright ? 1990 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022.
First PERENNIAL LIBRARY edition published 1990.
First Perennial Classics edition published 1998. Perennial Classics are published by HatperPerennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Their eyes were watching God : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a
foreword by Mary Helen Washington and an afterword by Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.--lst Perennial Classics ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-093141-8
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Afro-American women--psychology--Fiction. 2. Self-realization-
Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3515.U789T5 1999
813'.52-dc21
98-45543
98 99 00 01 02 +/RRD-H 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To Henry Allen Moe
Table of Contents
FOREWORD BY MARY HELEN WASHINGTON
ix
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
1
AFTERWORD BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
195
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
207
CHRONOLOGY
211
Foreword
In 1987, the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of Their Eyes Were Watching God, the University of Illinois Press inserted a banner in the lower right-hand corner of the cover of their anniversary reprint edition: "1987/50th Anniversary--STILL A BESTSELLER!" The back cover, using a quote from the Saturday Review by Doris Grumbach, proclaimed Their Eyes, "the finest black novel of its time" and "one of the finest of all time." Zora Neale Hurston would have been shocked and pleased, I believe, at this stunning reversal in the reception of her second novel, which for nearly thirty years after its first publication was out of print, largely unknown and unread, and dismissed by the male literary establishment in subtle and not so subtle ways. One white reviewer in 1937 praised the novel in the Saturday Review as a "rich and racy love story, if somewhat awkward," but had difficulty believing that such a town as Eatonville, "inhabited and governed entirely by Negroes," could be real.
Black male critics were much harsher in their assessments of the novel. From the beginning of her career, Hurston was severely criticized for not writing fiction in the protest tradition. Sterling Brown said in 1936 of her earlier book Mules and Men that it was not bitter enough, that it did not depict the harsher side of black life in the South, that Hurston made black southern
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