Zora Neale Hurston and &quote;Their Eyes Were Watching God&quote;

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Hawai'i Pacific University, course: 20th Century Women Writers of Color, language: English, abstract: Nora Zeale Hurston's novel "e;Their Eyes Were Watching God"e; can be considered "e;one of the sexiest, most 'healthily' rendered heterosexual love stories in our literature"e; (Walker, "e;ZoraNeale Hurston 88). This paper provides information about the outer contexts of the novel, as well as inductive analyses of the novel. The first part of the paper (Ch. 2-5) reveals informationabout the author and the historical and literary context of the time in which Hurston s novel was published. The second part of the paper (Ch. 6-7) starts off with an analysis of the plot andcharacters of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and then focuses on the theme of Otherness as it occurs in Huston s novel. The examinations of the concept of Otherness , alongside with otherterms such as Dichotomization and Stigma , will be based on the concepts that Rosenblum and Travis describe in their work The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race,Sex and Gender, Social Class and Sexual Orientation.