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"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is a novel that was written by author Zora Neale Hurston, and it was published in 1935. It narrates the life and story of a woman, Janie Crawford, who is a woman of mixed race, who has to face the realities and difficulties of being a woman in a world controlled by men, but at the same time being a woman who is dreaming of leading a different life.
One of the many reasons that "Their Eyes Were Watching God" was criticized negatively, and considered controversial, is that she refused to follow on the footsteps of other authors from the Harlem Renaissance movement and instead of writing against African American segregation, she decided to focus entirely on a purely individual, normal day-life African American woman´s story who faces all of the difficulties that women, of any race, face in America at the time.