Sharon Davie, "Free Mules, Talking Buzzards, and Cracked Plates: The Politics of Dislocation in Their Eyes Were Watching God," in PMLA, May, 1993, pp. 446-459.
Scholarly article which examines the relationships among control, reason, and language in the novel
Robert E. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston, Illinois, 1977. A popular biography of the Writer which includes a good discussion of her work and Its relationship to her life.
Karla F. C Holloway, Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature, Rutgers, 1992.
A book-length study which considers the work of several black women writers and several of Hurston's works in addition to Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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