Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
Observed surface forms (4)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937 novel) | 0 | 1 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) | 0 | 1 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005 film) | 0 | 1 |
| “Their Eyes Were Watching God” | 0 | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel → |
| adaptation |
Their Eyes Were Watching God
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005 film)
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| adaptationNetwork | ABC → |
| adaptationProducer | Oprah Winfrey → |
| adaptationType | television film → |
| author | Zora Neale Hurston → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception |
initially mixed reviews
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later acclaimed as a masterpiece → |
| firstEditionFormat | print → |
| genre |
African-American literature
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Bildungsroman → Feminist literature → Romance novel → Southern literature → |
| hasDialogueStyle | use of African-American Vernacular English → |
| hasLiteraryForm | prose → |
| includedIn | American literature canon → |
| literaryMovement | Harlem Renaissance → |
| literarySignificance |
considered a classic of African-American literature
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considered a landmark of Black feminist literature → |
| mainCharacter |
Janie Crawford
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Joe Starks → Logan Killicks → Tea Cake → |
| motif |
horizon
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hurricane → pear tree → |
| narrativePointOfView |
frame narrative
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third-person narration → |
| openingLine | Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. → |
| originalLanguage | English → |
| pageCount | approximately 286 → |
| publicationDate | 1937 → |
| publisher | J. B. Lippincott & Co. → |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century → |
| settingPlace |
Eatonville, Florida, United States
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surface form:
Eatonville, Florida
Everglades National Park →
surface form:
Everglades, Florida
Florida → |
| structure | three marriages of Janie Crawford → |
| subjectMatter | life of a Black woman in the American South → |
| taughtIn | university literature courses → |
| theme |
Black female autonomy
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community and individuality → love and marriage → nature and spirituality → race and gender → voice and self-expression → |
| titleOrigin | derived from a line describing people facing a hurricane → |
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005 film)
this entity surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
this entity surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937 novel)
subject surface form:
Eatonville, Florida
this entity surface form:
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”