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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Their Eyes Were Watching God"”.
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"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>.
… of Hurston’s figurative language in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Metaphors, symbolism, and personification have always been present in the African American language. Hurston uses the richness of figurative language to depict the African American experience in the United States during …
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Flinging the Apron and Tearing the Kerchief: Janie Crawford's Gestures in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
… this thesis, I argue that in her 1937 novel <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>, Zora Neale Hurston demonstrates protagonist Janie Crawford's development through her use of gesture. As the narrative moves throughout Janie's life, she becomes progressively able to communicate her feelings and …
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Finding Identity Through Survival: The Impact of the Hurricanes in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
… the hurricane symbol in Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God </em>and Jesmyn Ward’s <em>Salvage the Bones</em>. In both novels, the authors use the imagery of setting combined with the characterization of poor women of color in order to emphasize both the effects of environmental …
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Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison
… is a literary device authors use to empower their characters. In fact, both Zora Neale Hurston, in her renowned novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Toni Morrison, in her 1981 novel Tar Baby, exploit voice in different ways. This thesis will investigate and explore the ways in which both …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… Native Son, Invisible Man, Quicksand, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are distinctly picaresque. The genre continues a tradition begun with the trickster tales of Africa (Anansi, the Spider and others), then transformed by Blacks in the American South into stories of the exploits of Brer …
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… the numerous ways that Black women have used their voice to challenge systems of oppression. If we examine their thinking as expressed through their poetry, their performances (including activism), and their self-life-writing, would we be able to locate a practice that robustly sustains lives …
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Suffering and the Black Female Narrative in the Twentieth Century
… where can Black female readers find joy in their history and culture without elements of grave sacrifice, abuse, and injustice? Though these instances of suffering do not account forall of theliterary experiences of Black women, we cannot ignore that this theme is prevalent in literature …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
… one of these in Chapter 3: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Although Janie must rely on her husband to save her from the flood, she survives, though her husband does not. In Chapter 4, I discuss two stories by Eudora Welty, “Moon Lake” and “The Wide Net.” In “Moon Lake,” Easter …
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After Mary Prince: navigating 'authenticity' in 20th-century diasporic women's migration narratives
… the chapters focus on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God; Gloria Naylor's Mama Day; Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem; and, as an epilogue, Edwidge Danticat's recent work The Dew Breaker. These texts perpetuate key questions of how gender and labor mutually …
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… and Charles Chesnutt revise plantation romance, their techniques of masking and doubling enabling them to create an alternative collective memory that exposes the trauma of slavery and the fictive constructs of paternalism. Nonetheless, their lack of success outside this accommodationist genre …
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Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels
… explores how Black women writers engage with their image in dominant Western discourse. Deliberately objectified, their discursive identities have been underwritten and overlooked. Using Sylvia Wynter's argument that the emergence of Black women writers presents a parallax view that reorients …
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The Queen of the Household: Mothers, Other Mothers, and Female Genealogy on the Plantation in Postslavery Women's Fiction
… Contending Forces, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, and Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order are woman-centered; each text focuses on a mother-child relationship and privileges the voices of women over …
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Tragic mercies and other journeys to redemption: defining the Morrisonian tragedy
… oppressive systems that would normally handicap their resolve. I also configure the journey in ways that parallel other cultural expressions that are ingrained in the African American psyche. For example, I liken certain themes to the reclamation of the vernacular tradition. In each instance, I …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… to be considered funny. Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> (1937) gives readers a woman whose struggle for a Black female voice lands her on an informal standup comedy stage. <em>Lolita</em> (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov walks a tightrope of taboo subject matter, encouraging …