Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A CasebookThe rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays