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Hurstons perspective of womanhood as a journey toward self discovery and ultimate independence. The student researching this top...

begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...

travel without restrictions throughout the many worlds, sexualities and identities of all of American society. Larsens novel expl...

Killicks, an much older, but a very successful man. For Janies grandmother, freedom equates with having the financial security to ...

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

"deplored any joyful tendencies" in her, she was "their Zora" (Hurston). She was a confident young girl and this was a very impo...

on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

leave him. Finally, Janie shares that when her grandmother passes away she seeks her own freedom and runs away from Logan. Many do...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...

vague in many cases, while at the same time demonstrating their importance in the grand scheme of things within Harlem. Harlem s...

feminism, and on the realities of women in general. Some of those statements are presented in her 1926 short story "Sweat" and he...

home at an early age. Hurston described this period of her life as "a series of wanderings." She did occasional work as a wardrobe...

This paper examines the sexuality featured in this 1948 final novel by Zora Neale Hurston in five pages. Five sources are cited i...

This paper examines how Zora Neale Hurston was able to coexist in both white and black literary circles in eight pages. Eight sou...

begin to take on the vestiges of their prior identity to African-Americans. They were the providers of work, that work being very...

Ini nine pages this paper applies Janet St. Clair's essay to the 'whiteness' of the character Jim in this analysis of Seraph on th...

In seven pages this consideration of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston analyzes how folklore functions. Three sources are cited...

her age and a man that treats her badly. In many ways he enslaves her and she feels helpless to leave him. Finally, Janie shares t...

In six pages Walker takes inspiration from Winnie Mandela and Zora Neale Hurston in presenting her own personal interpretation of ...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

who will stand on her own and no longer stand for physical abuse. Her husband, however, subconsciously knows that he has no pow...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...