Zora Neale Hurston is today recognized as a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance literature of the 1920s and American modernist literature. Hurston’s most important works, published in the 1930s, emerge from her interest in African American oral and vernacular culture, represented in her most studied publications Mules and Men (1935) and Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937).

On Zora Neale Hurston : fictionalizing funerals in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / --Biography of Zora Neale Hurston / -- Moving away from the reactionary : regional mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / -- Janie in the sun : Invoking Hurston's Caribbean travels in Tell my horse / -- Mrs. Turpin and Mrs. Turner : foolish pride in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / -- Race and patronage : critical receptions of Hurston's relationship with Charlotte Osgood Mason / -- The gender mountain : the architecture of male-female relationships in Hurston's short fiction / -- "The country in the woman" : three forgotten fictions by Zora Neale Hurston / -- African elements in the folktales of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / -- Dance as a "feather-bed resistance" in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / -- "Is it not a riot in all that [s]he doeth?" : embracing performativity in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / -- Conservative or visionary : the journalistic career of Zora Neale Hurston / -- Signifyin(g) black and white speech in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee / -- Seraph on the Suwanee : Hurston's "white novel" / -- Zora Neale Hurston as womanist / -- Adaptations of Hurston's writings for children and Hurston in historical novels for young readers / -- "Another instance of our thoughts clicking" : artistic passion in Zora Neale Hurston's letters to Langston Hughes / -- Resources : Chronology of Zora Neale Hurston's life ; Works by Zora Neale Hurston ; Bibliography. On Zora Neale Hurston : fictionalizing funerals in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Biography of Zora Neale Hurston -- Moving away from the reactionary : regional mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- Janie in the sun : Invoking Hurston's Caribbean travels in Tell my horse -- Mrs. Turpin and Mrs. Turner : foolish pride in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Race and patronage : critical receptions of Hurston's relationship with Charlotte Osgood Mason -- The gender mountain : the architecture of male-female relationships in Hurston's short fiction -- "The country in the woman" : three forgotten fictions by Zora Neale Hurston -- African elements in the folktales of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- Dance as a "feather-bed resistance" in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- "Is it not a riot in all that [s]he doeth?" : embracing performativity in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road -- Conservative or visionary : the journalistic career of Zora Neale Hurston -- Signifyin(g) black and white speech in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- Seraph on the Suwanee : Hurston's "white novel" -- Zora Neale Hurston as womanist -- Adaptations of Hurston's writings for children and Hurston in historical novels for young readers -- "Another instance of our thoughts clicking" : artistic passion in Zora Neale Hurston's letters to Langston Hughes.