Literacy and hibernation / Robert B. Stepto --
"I love the way Janie Crawford left her husbands": Zora Neale Hurston's emergent female hero / Mary Helen Washington --
The politics of fiction, anthropology, and the folk: Zora Neale Hurston / Hazel V. Carby --
Language, speech, and difference in Their eyes were watching God / Cynthia Bond --
Naming and power in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Sigrid King --
Laughin' up a world: Their eyes were watching God and (wo)man of words / John Lowe --
"Mink skin or coon hide": the Janus-faced narrative of Their eyes were watching God / Susan Edwards Meisenhelder --
"The porch couldn't talk for looking": voice and vision in Their eyes were watching God / Deborah Clarke --
"The hierarchy itself": Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and the sacrifice of narrative authority / Ryan Simmons --
"Some other way to try": from defiance to creative submission in Their eyes were watching God / Shawn E. Miller.