Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: Reading Group (Durham, NC)

**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+

Full Tuition: $215 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose PayPal or Klarna at check out.

Instructor: Tatiana McInnis | 3 Weeks | Saturdays | April 3-17 | 7:00-9:00 PM | Durham, NC

Zora Neale Hurston’s most celebrated and widely-read novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) has long been a must-read for folks interested in Black studies and Black Feminism. Today, it’s increasingly understood as a key text for understanding environmental injustice. Whether this is a classic favorite or your first time reading, you’ll leave the class with a better understanding of its literary importance and contemporary insights.

Their Eyes Were Watching God was written during Hurston's time in Haiti, where she is known to have written the entire novel in seven weeks! It was originally published in 1937, and is frequently taught in high school and undergraduate literature courses. Over the course of three weeks, we’ll gather key insights into the novel’s literary and historical importance, and we’ll also turn to its increasing relevance for understanding the disproportionate impacts climate catastrophes have on Black, Brown, and/or low-income communities. In this class, we will center Zora Neale Hurston's protagonist, Janie Crawford, her time in Eatonville, Florida, and the dialect-rich (and controversial) storytelling of the South with attention to the various intellectual contexts within which the novel is taught.

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