Publication Date
8-1992
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Pat Carr, Lou-Ann Crouthers, James Flynn
Degree Program
Department of English
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
The use of myth in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has been touched on by a few critics, but the wealth of Hurston's knowledge of different cultures offers readers a number of stories and tales from which to draw possible analogues to her characters. In fact, readers can trace Greek, Roman, Norse, Babylonian, Egyptian, African and African-American mythic elements in her character Tea Cake Woods. Hurston uses these analogues to enrich the characterization and to posit her theories of love and happiness in the modern age.
Disciplines
African American Studies | Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Recommended Citation
Hannah, Kathleen, "He was a Glance from God: Mythic Analogues for Tea Cake Woods in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1992). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 2420.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2420
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Commons