Secondary Bibliography

The secondary bibliography we provide here is derived from the Modern Language Association Bibliography and other sources and aims to identify the most recent books, essay collections, and journal articles published on Hurston in the last five years. It is continuously updated and supplemented by a list of dissertations also completed in the last five years.

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  • Brantley, Will. "Zora Neale Hurston." Ed. Richard Gray and Owen Robinson. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 472–85.
  • Duck, Anne Leigh. "'Rebirth of a Nation': Hurston in Haiti." Journal of American Folklore 117: 464, 127–46.
  • Gourdine, Angeletta KM. "Colored Readings; or, Interpretation and Raciogendered Body." Ed. Patrocinio P. Schweickart and Elizabeth A. Flynn. Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Response.New York: Modern Language Association of America, 60–82.
  • Grant, A.J. and Connie Ruzich. "A Rhetoric of Roads: Their Eyes Were Watching God as Pastoral." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 5:2, 16–28.
  • Grant, Nathan. Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity. Columbia: U of Missouri P.
  • Haas, Robert. "The Story of Louis Pasteur and the Making of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Famous Film Influencing a Famous Novel?." Literature/Film Quarterly 32:1, 12–19.
  • Hagood, Taylor. "Ah Ain't Got Nobody: Southern Identity and Signifying on Dialect in Hurston and Faulkner." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association, 45–53.
  • Hathaway, Rosemary V. "The Unbearable Weight of Authenticity: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and a Theory of 'Touristic Reading." Journal of American Folklore 117: 464, 168–90.
  • King Lovalerie. "African American Womanism: From Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker." Ed. Maryemma Graham. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 233–52.
  • Lauden, John. "Reading Hurston Writing." African American Review 38:1, 45–60.
  • Miller, Shawn E. "'Some Other Ways to Try': From Defiance to Creative Submission in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Southern Literary Journal 37:1, 74–95.
  • Pavlic, Edward M. "'Papa Legba, Ouvrier Barriere Pour Moi Passer': Esu in Their Eyes & Zora Neale Hurston's Diasporic Modernism." African American Review 38:1, 61–85.
  • Szabo, Peter Gaal. "The Ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston's Imaginative Space." B.A.S. British and American Studies/Revista de Studii Britanice si Americane 10, 187–95.
  • Warnes, Andrew. Hunger Overcome?: Food and Resistance in Twentieth–Century African American Literature. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P.
  • Williams, Kimmika L. H. "Ties That Bind: A Comparative Analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's and Geneva Smitherman's Work." Ed. Elaine B. Richardson, et al. African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 86–107.
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  • Andersen, Corinne. "'I Dance Wildly inside Myself': Music as Metaphor for Transculturation in Zora Neale Hurston's Autoethnographic Oeuvre." Ed. Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle. Sound as Sense: Contemporary U.S. Poetry &/in Music. New Comparative Poetics/Nouvele Poetique Comparatiste 11. Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang, 45–58.
  • Deffenbacher, Kristina. "Woolf, Hurston, and the House of Self." Ed. Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude. New York: Haworth, 105–21.
  • Henninger, Katherine. "Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and the Postcolonial Gaze." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 56:4, 581–95.
  • Jordan, Edwina and Jen Richrath. "The Restless Souls of Zora Neale Hurston and John Steinbeck." English Record 53:3, 22–30.
  • Korobkin, Laura H. "Legal Narratives of Self–Defense and Self–Effacement in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Studies in American Fiction 31:1, 3–28.
  • Kraut, Anthea. "Between Primitivism and Diaspora: The Dance Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham." Theatre Journal 55:3, 433–50.
  • Marquis Margaret. "'When de Notion Strikes Me': Body Image, Food, and Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Southern Literary Journal 35:2, 79–88.
  • Newell, Carol E. "Folk Culture in Women's Narratives: Literary Strategies for Diversity in Nationalist Climates." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, 57:1, 123–34.
  • Newman, Judie. "'Dis Ain't Gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Modern Language Review 98:4, 817–26.
  • Plant, Deborah G. "The Benedict–Hurston Connection." CLA Journal 46:4, 435–56.
  • Rooney, Monique. "My You: Fannie Hurst, Zora Neale Hurston and Literary Patronage."Working Papers on the Web 5 [no pagination].
  • Sato, Hiroko. "Zora Neale Hurston to no deai." Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 149:8, 479.
  • Warren, Nagueyalti. "Echoing Zora: Ansa's Other Hand in The Hand I Fan With." CLA Journal 46:3, 362–82.
  • Wilson, Anthony. "The Music of God, Man, and Beast: Spirituality and Modernity in Jonah's Gourd Vine." Southern Literary Journal 35:2, 64–78.
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  • Barr, Tina. "'Queen of the Niggerati' and the Nile: The Isis–Osiris Myth in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Journal of Modern Literature 25: 3–4, 101–13.
  • Bass, Holly. "Better Late Than Never: After 60 Years, Zora Neale Hurston's Flavorful Polk County Comes to Life." American Theatre 19:6, 50–52.
  • Carr, Brian and Tova Cooper. "Zora Neale Hurston and Modernism at the Critical Limit." Modern Fiction Studies 48:2, 285–313.
  • Croft, Robert W. A Zora Neale Hurston Companion. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida.
  • Disheroon–Green, Suzanne. "Bleaching the Color Line: Caste Structures in Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Ed. Suzanne Disheroon–Green, Lisa Abney, and Robin Miller. Songs of Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865–1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 109–21.
  • Ellis, Juniper. "Enacting Culture: Zora Neale Hurston, Joel Chandler Harris, and Literary Anthropology." Ed. C. James Trotman. Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 155–69.
  • Joseph, Philip. "The Verdict from the Porch: Zora Neale Hurston and Reparative Justice." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 74:3, 455–83.
  • Kaplan, Carla. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. New York: Doubleday.
  • Konzett, Delia Caparoso. Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Ryhs, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Konzett, Delia Caparoso. "'Getting in Touch with the True South': Pet negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee. Ed. Samina Najmi, Rajini Srikanth, and Elizabeth Ammons. White Women in Racialized Spaces: Imaginative Transformation and ethical Action in Literature. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 131–46.
  • Lewis, Nghana. "'We Must Speak with the Same Weapons': Re–Inscribing Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road." CLA Journal 45:3, 311–28.
  • Lowe, John. "'Let the People Sing!' Zora Neale Hurston and the Dream of a Negro Theater." Ed. Robert L. McDondald and Linda Rohrer Paige. Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama, 11–26.
  • Lowe, John. "Zora Neale Hurston." Ed. Carolyn Perry, Mary Louise Weaks, and Doris Betts. The History of Southern Women's Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 379–85.
  • Manning, Carol S. "Hurston and Welty, Janie and Livvie." Southern Literary Journal 34:2, 64–72.
  • Powers, Peter Kerry. "Gods of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing: Masculinity, Religion, and Art in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston." Religion and American Culture 12:2, 229–47.
  • "The Queen of the Harlem Renaissance: Her Works Were Lost, but Not Forever." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 37, 52–53.
  • Reiger, Christopher. "The Working–Class Pastoral of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 56:1, 105–24.
  • Renfroe, Alicia M. "Interrogations of Justice in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Cycnos 19:2, 213–24.
  • Roberts, Brian R. " Predators in the 'Glades: A Signifying Animal Tale in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 41:1, 39–50.
  • Sample, Maxine. "Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)." Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. African American Biographers: A Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 208–19.
  • Schroeder, Patricia. "Rootwork: Arthur Flowers, Zora Neale Hurston, and the 'Literary Hoodoo' Tradition." African American Review 36:2, 263–72.
  • Simmons, Ryan. "'The Hierarchy Itself': Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Sacrifice of Narrative Authority." African American Rreview 36:2, 181–93.
  • West, Genevieve. "Feminist Subversion in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 31:4, 499–515.
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