Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God Analysis

To reflect on the unique situation of African American pressure, the postcolonial echoes in two well-known and well-respected African American authors works of literature will be analyzed. One of which is Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1981 in Eatonville, Florida and was the daughter of two former slaves. She spent many years not only studying her African culture but also other cultures in the Caribbean and Latin America. Unfortunately most of her work didn’t get noticed until after she had passed away, however she is now remembered as an extremely talented writer. Another African American writer whose work will be analyzed is Alice Walker who was born in 1944 in Georgia. She was one of eight siblings and grew up poor raised by her mother who was a …show more content…
While growing up in the extremely racially divided south, she managed to graduate as the valedictorian of her high school class. She later grew up and became a huge civil rights activist and a phenomenal writer.
Zora Neale Hurston wrote a book called “Their Eyes Were Watching God”; it included a variety of different postcolonial aspects. This novel didn’t discuss any of the men’s problems; rather it specifically focused on the women’s desire to be free and genuinely happy within. The main character Janie is mixed, and initially is seemingly a little confused about her ethnicity, but eventually she embraces and identifies as …show more content…
Throughout the novel she has trouble with self-perception. Which relates to post colonialism since most of this criticism emphasizes instability of identity. At an early age Janie reluctantly marries an elderly man to please her grandmother and is now forced to play the role of a wife to a man that could easily have been