Claire Crabtree, "The Confluence of Folklore, Feminism and Black Self-Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God," Southern Literary Journal, Vol 17, no 2, Spring, 1985, pp. 54-66.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Signifying Monkey, Oxford, 1988.

Jennifer Jordon, "Feminist Fantasies, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 7, Spring, 1988, pp. 105-17.

Alain Locke, review in Opportunity, June 1, 1938, reprinted in Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K A Appiah, Amistad, 1993, p. 18.

Lucille Tompkins, review in New York Times Book Review, September 26, 1937, reprinted in 2ora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K A. Appiah, Amistad, 1993, pp. 18-19. Alice Walker, "Looking for Zora," in In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, pp 93-116.

Cheryl Wall, "Zora Neale Hurston Changing Her Own Words," in 2ora Neale Hurston: Critical...