Her emphasis on black folk culture and her representations of African American men were often criticized as being counterproductive to the image of the “New Negro.” Despite the criticism Their Eyes Were Watching God received, Hurston’s powerful prose and honest depictions of the African American experience have inspired many contemporary readers, and the novel has become an integral part of the American literary canon.
The author, Zora Neale Hurston, gives Janie many chances to speak and she shows the reader outcomes. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie would sometimes speak her ideas and they would often make a difference. Many African American artists, including Richard Wright, found Hurston’s novel to be problematic. Sometimes their opinions may be silenced or even ignored. To call Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God an 'African American feminist classic' may be an accurate statementit is certainly a frequent statementbut it is a misleadingly narrow and rather dull way to introduce a vibrant and achingly human novel. HURSTONs novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright often debated about the actual authenticity of these representations as well as the role of the black artist. For this installment of the We the People book club, we dive into ZORA NEALE. The “New Negro Movement” and the Harlem Renaissance presented African American artists with the opportunity to use their art as a way to authentically represent the African American experience. Hurston wrote the novel during a critical moment for African American writers. 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.
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