Editor's note -- Introduction / folk preacher and folk sermon form in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston : a voice of her own/An entertainment in herself / "'... Ah said Ah'd save de text for you'" : recontextualizing the sermon to tell (her) story in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / compelling ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Projecting gender : personification in the works of Zora Neale Hurston / From mule bones to funny bones : the plays of Zora Neale Hurston / Conflict and resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston / Hitting "A straight lick with a crooked stick" : Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston's whiteface novel / Vodou imagery, African-American tradition and cultural transformation in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Socioeconomics in selected short stories of Zora Neale Hurston / porch couldn't talk for looking" : voice and vision in Their eyes were watching God / Chronology-- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.