Is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 62 / 100 (slightly WOKE-leaning). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937.
11 votes: 55% WOKE, 45% CHUD.
Why: Novel of a Black woman's self-realization and independence
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.