Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Black woman's quest for selfhood in Florida dialect, written in seven weeks in Haiti
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- Author
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Style
- Harlem Renaissance — The 'New Negro' speaking for himself: blues, jazz and African roots as high art
- Century
- 20th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1931 The Persistence of Memory — Salvador Dalí · Surrealism · Portlligat, Catalonia
- 1928–1930 Chrysler Building — William Van Alen · Art Deco · New York
- 1928–1931 Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret · Modern architecture (International Style) · Poissy, near Paris
- 1922–1931 Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski, Heitor da Silva Costa · Art Deco · Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro
- 1915 Black Square — Kazimir Malevich · Russian avant-garde · Moscow
- 1959–1973 Sydney Opera House — Jørn Utzon · Modern architecture (International Style) · Sydney
- 1962 Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol · Pop art · New York
- 1907–1908 The Kiss — Gustav Klimt · Art Nouveau · Vienna
What was happening in the world
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- 1933 Hitler comes to power
- 1936–1938 Great Purge
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War