The discussion on Dee Perry’s Around Noon [on September 19, 2011] was Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. You can hear all of the show at the link above. The book is a timeless classic that, in broad brush summary, is about hierarchy and race, gender and class. The novel begins where it ends, and ends where it begins, telling the story of Janie Crawford and her journey from late girlhood to womanhood. It is often read in literature courses and especially in African-American literature courses. It combines its gritty realism, black dialect and lofty poetic language to depict the black South of over 70 years ago. It is not typically thought of as a legal novel. There is, of course, chapter 19, which depicts Janie’s trial for murder. But that chapter seemingly stands alone in offering explicit language about law.
There is, however, much more about law in the novel. Their Eyes Were Watching God is, in large measure, a book about laws, rules and norm
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-Lolita Buckner Inniss
cross-post from Ain’t I a Feminist Legal Scholar, Too?
