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Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston.It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, [1] and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny".
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 2005 American television drama film based upon Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Darnell Martin, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, Misan Sagay, and Bobby Smith Jr., and produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions (Winfrey served as the host for the broadcast).
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1]: 17 [2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
Literary analysts note that the phrase owes much to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, [4] in which the protagonist Janie Crawford's grandmother says "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." [5] [6] John and Yoko wrote the song in the summer of 1969.
The Jennifer "Jennie" Spring/Janie Johnson series is a series of young adult novels written by Caroline B. Cooney. The series focuses on a young woman's attempts to discover the truth about her background after seeing her own image on a milk carton .
Jonah's Gourd Vine is Zora Neale Hurston's 1934 debut novel. [1] The novel is a semi-autobiographical novel following John Buddy Pearson and his wife, Lucy. The characters share the same first names as Hurston's parents and make a similar migration from Notasulga, Alabama to Hurston's childhood home, Eatonville, Florida.
Janie is a 1944 film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a 1942 Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel V. Williams Jr. [1] The play was adapted from Bentham's 1940 novel by the same name. Plot
Janie Fricke was the featured female vocalist on the track. The song reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in August 1977. [1] Gosdin wrote the song with his then-wife Cathy. More than 30 years later, Alan Jackson recorded a cover version of "Till the End" for his 2010 album Freight Train.