Zora Neale Hurston / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Preface to Mules and men / Franz Boas
A study in race relations : a meeting with Zora Neale Hurston / Nick Aaron Ford
One of the new realists / Benjamin Brawley
A perfect book of entertainment in herself / Langston Hughes
Ships at a distance : the meaning of Their eyes were watching God / Robert Bone
A personality sketch / Fannie Hurst
The spirituality of Jonah's gourd vine / Larry Neal
Their eyes were watching God / Roger Rosenblatt
The outsider / Addison Gayle, Jr.
Zora Neale Hurston's America / Theresa R. Love
A cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker
Crayon enlargements of life ; That which the soul lives by / Robert E. Hemenway
Janie's burden / Sherley Anne Williams.

On refusing to be humbled by second place in a contest you did not design ; Looking for Zora / Alice Walker
A woman half in shadow / Mary Helen Washington
The beginnigns of self-realization / Michael G. Cooke
Moses, man of the mountain : a study of power / Blyden Jackson
Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in Their eyes were watching God / Barbara Johnson.