Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is one of those books that holds an important place in literary history. In America. I say that plainly because I imagine it’s a book that is listed for American school reading (in the same way that Rabbit Proof Fence pops up on the Australian curriculum), because of what it says about emancipation, racism, gender roles, and life in the South during the 1930s. Continue reading →