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of her book material revolves around issues of slavery and the time
period immediately following it. She took her black rural culture and 
heritage and celebrated it at a time when most black scholars were 
trying hard to deny and forget it. Hurston also studied voodoo practices
in Jamaica, Haiti, and the British West Indies. She took photographs
and recorded their songs, dances, and rituals. She had a Guggenheim 
Fellowship to research in the Caribbean, where she stayed for two years. In the Caribbean, Zora Neale Hurston wrote the book she is probably 
most known for Their Eyes Were Watching God. It was written in 1937, 
after the ending of a love affair she had with a younger man. It took 
her seven weeks to complete. The book is about a woman named Janie
who learns to find herself and accept an identity that society is not
so fast to accept, as a fulfilled and autonomous black woman. Janie 
also finds love in this novel in a way untypical of other "love" stories
of the time.