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Slow Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God    NEW!

Author Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and folklorist, was a prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance. Her thoroughly-researched novel, published in 1937, follows the fictitious life of Janie Starks, a Black woman in Florida, from her 1890s childhood through her third marriage in the 1930s. Join this learning through conversation seminar as we follow Janie, her husbands, her friends, and even her enemies through their lives, joys, and sorrows within their entirely segregated communities.
  • Slow Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Instructor: Charles Copeland
    Dates: 4/24/2025 - 6/26/2025
    Days: Th
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
    Sessions: 9
    Location: The Social Chico
    Room: Bradley 1
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
    There is no fee to be added to the waitlist. Waitlisted members will be added to the class in the order they were added to the waitlist. We ask that you not attend the class until you have been officially registered. À La Carte Members on the waitlist will be contacted for payment before being registered in the class.
    Author Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and folklorist, was a prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance. Her thoroughly-researched novel, published in 1937, follows the fictitious life of Janie Starks, a Black woman in Florida, from her 1890s childhood through her third marriage in the 1930s. Join this learning through conversation seminar as we follow Janie, her husbands, her friends, and even her enemies through their lives, joys, and sorrows within their entirely segregated communities.

    The required book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers. The recommended edition for this class is the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, ISBN 978-0-06-093141-4.
 

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