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64.12300 Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
The attempts of black feminists to accommodate the often-conflicting imperatives of individual transformation, feminine bonding, and racial communalism have had a powerful effect on the reinterpretation of Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God". The novel is seen as a vehicle of feminist protest through its condemnation of the restrictiveness of bourgeois marriage and through its exploration of intraracial sexism and male violence. It is seen as a quest through which the heroine, Janie Killicks Starks Woods, achieves a sense of identity as a self-fulfilled woman and, through her own self-realization, becomes a leader of women and of her community. Although Their Eyes Were Watching God provides a most effective examination of the stultification of feminine talent and energy within traditional middle-class life, it ultimately belittles the suffering of the majority of black women whose working-class existences are dominated by hard labor and financial instability. While Hurston has been categorized as a writer of 'folk realism,' her suggestions above from 'What Publishers Won't Print' illustrates a desire to see more African American fiction which portrays a broad spectrum of the black community, especially professional middle-class black men and women (Jones,156). Furthermore, Janie's struggle for identity and self-direction remains stymied. She never defines herself outside the scope of her marital or romantic involvements and, despite her sincere relationship with her friend Pheoby, fails to achieve a communal identification with the black women around her or with the black community as a whole. As the novel ends, Janie chooses isolation and contemplation, not solidarity and action. 10 pgs, bibliography lists 9 sources.
Pages: 10
Bibliography: 9 source(s) listed
Filename: 12300 Hurstons Their Eyes.doc
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65.12467 "Ragtime".
This paper is a literary analysis of the book "Ragtime" written by E.L. Doctorow. 8 pgs, bibliography lists 4 sources.
Pages: 8
Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed
Filename: 12467 Ragtime.doc
Price: US$71.60
66.12475 Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
This paper examines the question of voice, specifically Janie's voice. It discusses her alienation from language, her discovery of her voice as Jody dies, and her changed relationship with language at the end of the novel. 3 pgs, bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 12475 Eyes Were Watching.doc
Price: US$26.85
67.13023 The Psychology of the Conflict Between Frederick Douglass and Mr. Covey.
Autobiographies present a personal view of a life that often lacks the kind of unflinching insight that a biography brings. But, the strength of the autobiography is that it presents a person's individual view of their lives. They present stories and details that most others could not know. Frederick Douglass was never more artfully subtle or persuasive than in "Narrative of the Life of an American Slave." In this memoir, Douglass - a black man who, as slavery was still in practice, engendered admiration and respect from both black and white people, including Abraham Lincoln - revealed his torturous boyhood as the work-beast of many owners of varying degrees of cruelty, though none so bad as Mr. Covey. The eloquently keen observations made by this former slave flew in the face of the conventional rationale that black people were just dumb beasts put on Earth for the use of white men. In "Narrative," Douglass ultimately earns his right to be a man in a final physical and psychological showdown with his brutal master, Covey. He achieves his 'rebellion', by defying those who would whip him (Mr. Covey), and those who would censor his identity as a man and a human. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the psychology of the relationship between Douglass and Covey and to demonstrate how it was psychology that ultimately defeated Covey. 6-pages, bibliography lists 5 sources.
Pages: 6
Bibliography: 5 source(s) listed
Filename: 13023 Conflict Between Frederick.doc
Price: US$53.70
68.We do not read books, they read us".
This paper is written at college freshman level. The contents of this paper justify the statement "We do not read books, they read us."
Pages: 1
Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed
Filename: 13276 Not Read Books.doc
Price: US$8.95
69.Gregor Samsa's Transformation.
The paper studies the motive behind sudden transformation of Gregor Samsa into a vermin in Franz Kafka's story 'The Metamorphosis'. The German author is known for his surreal characters that highlighted the inner psychological turmoil of a person dwelling in an alien society. The paper thus focuses on the reasons behind Gregor's metamorphosis and its connection with author's own life experiences.
Pages: 4
Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed
Filename: 13364 Gregor Samsa's Transformation.doc
Price: US$35.80
70.African American Literature.
This 10-page paper in MLA style discusses Cane by Jean Toomer and analyzes the poetry of Langston Hughes.
