Their Eyes Were Watching God Rhetorical Analysis

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In “The Unbearable Weight of Authenticity: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and a Theory of Touristic Reading” Rosemary Hathaway relies on the support of other critics to reach the main argument that Hurston's dialect in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is stereotyped. She stated that “numerous scholars and critics have noted, Hurston may well have been making a very conscious effort to represent the African American culture on some level. (173)” Nevertheless the criticism that Hurston got from the African culture when this was first published was negative. One would think that because it is an African American who wrote the book in such dialect it would’ve be acceptable, but in all reality it became more controversial considering