Zora Neale Hurston and the fate of the black conservative

Zora Neale Hurston and the fate of the black conservative

Few 20th-century American novels are more widely celebrated than Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The work, which traces a Southern black woman’s odyssey through poverty and difficult marriages toward self-understanding, has been praised by countless scholars and writers, was adapted into a television film starring Halle Berry and produced by...