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Borders, space, and liminality in Dorothy West's The living is easy and Rudolf Fisher's The walls of Jericho
In The Living Is Easy and The Walls of Jericho , novelists Dorothy West and Rudolf Fisher offer ethnographical treatments of 1930s Boston and Harlem. Along with focusing on the interracial divide in these writings, the authors illuminate intra-racial divisions of class, color, and regionality. …
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Dorothy West's Re-imagining of the Migration Narrative
This thesis explores Dorothy West's interpretation of the migration experience through her novel The Living is Easy. Dorothy West breaks new ground by documenting a Black female migrant's sojourn from South to North in an era in which such narratives were virtually non-existent. West seemingly …