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It is difficult to evaluate Waters Turpin's These Low Grounds and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. This is not because there is an esoteric meaning hidden or implied in either of the two novels; but rather because neither of the two novels has a basic idea or theme that lends itself to significant interpretation. Miss Hurston seems to have no desire whatever to move in the direction of serious fiction.... Miss Hurston can write, but her prose is cloaked in that facile sensuality that has dogged Negro expression since the days of Phillis Wheatley.... Miss Hurston voluntarily continues in her novel the tradition which was forced upon the Negro in the theatre, that is, the minstrel technique that makes the "white folks" laugh. Richard Wright
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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1937/00/00 | Zora Neale Hurston | Author | Thier Eyes Were Watching God - published | ||||
| 1937/00/00 | J B Lippincott Company | Publisher | Thier Eyes Were Watching God - published |
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Weather | Cyclones, Hurricanes and Typhoons | ||
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Meteorology | Stormy Weather | ||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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