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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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Their eyes were watching Zora: storientation, black girl magic, and Afrofuturistic implications for educators
… as it correlates with the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. Through the four stances of Black Girl Magic—realization, resistance, restoration, and resilience—this study reveals how Hurston’s contributions continue to shape Black girlhood and womanhood as a source of strength, creativity, …
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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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"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>.
<p>The principal objective of this paper is to investigate the use 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 …
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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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"""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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"""I Love Myself When I Am Laughing"": Tracing the Origins of Black Folk Comedy in Zora Neale Hurston's Plays Before ""Mule Bone"
Mule Bone (1931), Zora Neale Hurston's collaboration with Langston Hughes, has been credited as the 'first' attempted by African Americans to create 'Negro folk comedy.' This dissertation is driven from a question to the recent scholarship's tacit consent on such historic importance imposed on this …
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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
Black Arts' writer Amiri Baraka observes in his essay "Northern Iowa: Short Story and Poetry," that "For black people, freedom is our aesthetic and our ideology." The focus on liberation has artistic and political resonance for African Americans. Freedom--as communal aesthetic 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
… convey the importance of 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 …
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