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Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat and an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Hurston, Zora Neale, (author.). Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (Added Author). Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- (Added Author).

Summary:

This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.
Set in Florida in the early twentieth century, this is the story of Janie Crawford, a black woman in her forties, as told to her friend Phoeby. The granddaughter of a woman born in slavery, independent Janie evolves through poverty, trials, and three marriages.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780060838676 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 219, 16 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: 1937.
"75th anniversary edition"--Cover.
This book was banned and challenged for profanity, and because it was claimed to be sexually explicit.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-210).
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their eyes were watching God -- Afterword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology.

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Subject: Banned book sanctuary.
Classics > Fiction
Literary > Fiction
African American women > Fiction.
Self-realization > Fiction.
Jacksonville (Fla.) > Fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch FIC Hurst 31681010319366 FICTIONPBK Available -
Lakeshore Branch FIC Hurst 31681010343309 BOOK SANCTUARY Available -

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  • Baker & Taylor
    When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, her small black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man.
  • Baker & Taylor
    When independent Janie Crawford returns home, her small African-American community begins to buzz with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man, in a novel set in the 1930s South. Reissue.
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    “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.”—Zadie Smith

    One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

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