African American Literature
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Violence as Voice: "The maiden language" and Testimony in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Joyce Pualani Warren, University of California, Los Angeles
How do Janie's encounters with legal institutions focus the text's notions of race, sexuality, social identity, and black femininity? How do alternative modes of language and narration, particularly violence, respond to legal and social marginalization and assert Janie's autonomy as lover and woman?
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Dying to Know: Sickness and Information about Racial and Familial Identity in The Curse of Caste. Sarah Schuetze, University of Kentucky
This paper explores disease in relation to racial identity in The Curse of Caste. Through this analysis, we see a pattern of “infection” of racial hatred that links characters to each other and shapes the narrative.
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Explosion of a Dream Deferred: Ann Petry's Literary Naturalism in The Street. Jake Boone, California State University, Chico
This paper explores Ann Petry's version of literary Naturalism and how it, along with a racist society, negatively affects African American women in the novel, The Street.
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The Blindside of Beauty: The Sublimity of Female Agency in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Erin Suyehara, University of Pennsylvania
This paper illuminates Pecola's madness and beauty in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and explores the ways in which the Blues note and rhapsody sheds light on the female characters who must evoke sublimity in order to transvalue patriarchal dominance into the feminine agency.
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