What to do? Selection List: Works Examined: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Sula by Toni Morrison Meridian by Alice Walker   Literary Conventions   Questions and Exercises

Program Purpose The purpose of this multimedia module is to demonstrate ways in which symbols and practices of African American folk culture (many of them deriving from African religious traditions) influence the themes, language, imagery, characterization, and style in the literary works of three African American women writers.  The writers and their respective novels to be studied are:  Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Toni Morrison, Sula; and Alice Walker, Meridian.    Works to be Examined Sula Their Eyes Were Watching God Meridian by Toni Morrison by Zora Neale Hurston by Alice Walker

Program content by Violet Bryan,Ph.D. and Robin Vander