THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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I, Too
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It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing
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The Red Summer of 1919
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Detailed explanation-1: -Zora Neale Hurston wrote this novel to point out race disparities during the Harlem Renaissance during this time. I believe that she also wrote this story to talk about gender relationships as well. From a young age, race plays a prevalent role in Janie’s life.
Detailed explanation-2: -The epic tale of Janie Crawford, whose quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life’s joys and sorrows, and come home to herself in peace.
Detailed explanation-3: -Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is the coming-of-age story of Janie Crawford, an African American woman growing up in Eatonville, Florida-one of the first incorporated African American towns in the United States. Hurston wrote the novel during a critical moment for African American writers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Zora Neale Hurston was a scholar whose ethnographic research made her a pioneer writer of “folk fiction” about the black South, making her a prominent writer in the Harlem Renaissance. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is her most celebrated novel.