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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Zora Neale Hurston"”.
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Zora Neale Hurston: An Emotional Biography
"Zora Neale Hurston: An Emotional Biography" is an edition of letters written by Zora Neal Hurston in the final years of her life. Each letter is preceded by an introduction that familiarizes the reader with the social, historical, and emotional context of the letter. This study will attempt to …
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(Re)covering lost lore : folklore adaptations in Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor.
… of marginalized cultures; for example both Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor, two prominent African American female authors, use folklore, their written literature. In doing so, both Hurston and Naylor recognize the value folklore has played in African American culture and they give voice …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the …
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Being black and female : an analysis of literature by Zora Neale Hurston and Jessie Redmon Fauset
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1986.
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Rereading Zora Neale Hurston through the lens of "What white publishers won't print".
During Zora Neale Hurston's life, she wrote many controversial statements on race. Scholars continually suggest that Hurston was merely pandering to the white nation or tricking her audience. By using Hurston's own explanation of "What White Publishers Won't Print," I examine the constraints and …
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… works of the two Southern women writers, Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, based on the cultural contexts of the 1930s and the 1940s. It discusses how the two writers' works are in dialogue with each other, and with the particular historical period in which the South had …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
Zora Neale Hurston is a controversial figure, equally praised and criticized for her representation of African-Americans; while some critics emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are three authors who are very often read alongside one another in classrooms, book groups, and history. This grouping is often based on a system of seemingly arbitrary but identity-based categorical structures . Facets of the author' s assigned …
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
… short stories. To what ends do the works by Hurston, Wright, Bambara, and Baraka emphasize the "choices" African Americans make in the face of social barriers? Addressing this question will help to better explain how characters, within specific short stories, make specific decisions to gain …
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Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison
… 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 of these authors utilize and …
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The Ghost Of Ravishment That Lingers In The Land: The Beginnings Of Environmentalism In Seraph On The Suwanee And Go Down, Moses
Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner are recognized for their environmental writing. However, few scholars have acknowledged the sophisticated environmentalism present in Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee and Faulkner's fictional depiction of Lafayette County in Go Down, Moses. This thesis seeks …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… their works. Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston used their own fictional works to explore the New Negro construct being promoted. In examining the constructed nature of this New Negro identity, these artists strove to destabilize the social "norms" upon which the identity was …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… For Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston, the Bible is a source of moral authority they use to challenge the imperialist, colonialist, and nativist projects of the twentieth-century U.S. In rebranding the Bible as politically radical, these writers are not denying the …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… bodies. Through case studies of Mary Austin, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorine Niedecker, C. S. Giscombe, and Natalie Diaz, I argue that writers’ encounters with industrialized watersheds have led to new modes of methodological and textual experimentation that stretch the boundaries of empiricism. In …
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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
… 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 desires through the use of her body's …
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… homage to many of my preferred authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, John O'Hara and other American writers as well as a panoply of African, British, Irish, French, German and Russian novelists, short story writers and playwrights. …
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Becoming
… Becoming. Using James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston as departure points, both the photo series and this academic explanative seeks to explore the question of what does it mean to become? Or in other words, what is the imperative to be who you are, to actualize within a space that …
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Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing
… of Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Zora Neale Hurston, looking for moments when objects either represent an idealized past or reveal its constructed nature. This approach demonstrates that opposed to producing ahistorical texts focused on solely domestic issues, these writers …
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