Remembering the sacred tree: Black women, nature and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse and Their Eyes Were Watching God

Women's Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 465-482

  Stein, Rachel ^a  

^a Siena College   (India)

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EID: 0141433893     PISSN: 00497878     EISSN: 15477045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1996.9979131     Document Type: Article

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