Take Aways from "Their Eyes" Foreword.

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is:

1. A bildungsroman; coming of age and "consciousness" novel; Self-revelation—or self-realization—of and through voice. To these ends, identity and place are crucial (x, xiii-xv, xvii).
   
2. A celebration, empowerment of:
• African American traditions; “blackness” (xi, xvi).
• women, specifically black women (xi, xii, xiv, xvii).
3. Harlem Renaissance lit, African American lit, feminist lit, and ultimately American Lit.