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BookshelfMonstrosity: Kincaid and Hurston have each set their moving, character-driven novels in atmospheric, sunny settings -- the Caribbean, and Florida respectively. Both novels explore haunting truths about identity, society, friendship and love as an African-American female protagonist gains new self-awareness and respect for her experiences.… (más)
Zadie Smith introduces this edition with a knockout recommendation, as a book with a tremendous personal impact on her reading and writing, and as a great 20th century novel. This books takes us into the world of Jamie, born just out of slavery, but bearing the scars of beautiful black women and their inheritance of trauma. Her story is one of both independence and relationships; moving from being chosen to choosing, living in community and the complex, destructive and loving relationships in black labouring communities in a white dominated world. The language shifts from narrator to demotic speech and in the end Jamie walks on her own feet in her own world - one that is revelatory to the reader.
Jamie suffers through life as a poor black women of the South until she meets Tea Cake who takes her in a new direction to the mud of Lake Okeechobee and a deadly hurricane. ( )
Audio version with a knockout performance by the legendary Ruby Dee. Justifiably a classic of American lit. Janie is a memorable protagonist. A black woman who fights for and attains love, dignity and respect in a country that does not want her to have it. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To Henry Allen Moe
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
When I first read Their Eyes Were Watching God, in the early 1970's, I devoured it as one devours the most satisfying romantic fiction - the kind that stems from reality and that can, in the broadest sense, become real for oneself. (Introduction)
I first encountered Zora Neale Hurston in an Afro-American literature course I took in graduate school. (Afterword)
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. the rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. Now they emerged and quested about her consciousness...
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.
Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.
She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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February Group Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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