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“Just like Mister Jim”: Class Transformation from Cracker to Aristocrat in Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee
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This article is published in Mississippi Quarterly.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 6 citations till now.read more
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The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction
Gloria T. Randle,Ann duCille +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the nascence of literary activity among American black women and investigated the cultural climate which led some of the most prominent to use the marriage convention as a means of exploring wider questions of human social relations, sexuality and female subjectivity.
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Exceptional Minds, Unstated Exceptions: Intellectual Disability and Post-War Racial Liberalism in African American "White Life" Novels
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From the Suwanee to Egypt, There's No Place Like Home
TL;DR: The authors compare the critical reception of Seraph, The Beans, and Their Eyes and reveal the mechanism by which readers identify with imaginary characters is constituted by middle-class reading practices, which expose the class-bound roots of the literary construction of identity, meaning and reality.
Is marriage worth it?: zora neale hurston's examination of marriage in their eyes were watching god and seraph on the suwanee
TL;DR: This paper examined marital difficulties in Hurston's Their Eyes were Watching God and Seraph on the Suwanee, in a way that undercuts issues of race, because both her black character and her white character face many of the same problems.
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The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction
Gloria T. Randle,Ann duCille +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the nascence of literary activity among American black women and investigated the cultural climate which led some of the most prominent to use the marriage convention as a means of exploring wider questions of human social relations, sexuality and female subjectivity.
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The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction
TL;DR: The authors explored the nascence of literary activity among American black women and investigated the cultural climate which led some of the most prominent to use the marriage convention as a means of exploring wider questions of human social relations, sexuality and female subjectivity.
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Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston
TL;DR: The authors argue that Hurston's response to her situation was much more sophisticated than her detractors have recognized, and that her work constitutes an extended critique of the values of white culture and a rejection of white models for black people.
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Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation
TL;DR: In this paper, Yezierska discusses the marketability of ethnicity in the context of race, race, nation, art, and culture in the United States and the African Diaspora.