• S1 E8: Are Older Women Allowed to Have Odysseys? The Case of Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • Mar 7 2025
  • Length: 48 mins
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S1 E8: Are Older Women Allowed to Have Odysseys? The Case of Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

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  • Sonja and Vanessa play around with the odyssey concept and ask if the story 40-something Janie Crawford tells her BFF, Pheoby, in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God fits the definition of an Odyssey…and if maybe that’s even what Hurston had in mind in her legendary first two paragraphs? Can following an unfamiliar dirt road be like the winds of the Aegean Sea tossing one into the unknown? Is an odyssey about where you or what you ultimately learn about yourself? Can marriages be battles? And what if the hot odyssey-sex involved is not with an strange, immortal witch but with the person you love most in the world? Spoiler alerts! So if you want to read the novel first and then go on this journey with us, Sonja and Vanessa are waiting for you by the gate with idea-bags packed!

    Works referenced:

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
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