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whiteness of it all: Patriarchal dysfunction and feminist consciousness in Zora Neale Hurston's "Seraph on the Suwanee"
Title
The whiteness of it all: Patriarchal dysfunction and feminist consciousness in Zora Neale Hurston's "Seraph on the Suwanee".
Creator
Butler, Rita C., Florida Atlantic University, Stover, Johnnie
Abstract/Description
In Seraph on The Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston continues a tradition of covert resistance on the part of a black culture struggling to survive within a hostile white society. Her last published novel reveals a talent for combining art and politics and in many ways represents a synthesis of her race, class, and gender consciousness which had grown over the years. Instead of her familiar focus on black culture, however, this paper argues that Hurston uses the story of a conflictive white marriage...
Show moreIn Seraph on The Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston continues a tradition of covert resistance on the part of a black culture struggling to survive within a hostile white society. Her last published novel reveals a talent for combining art and politics and in many ways represents a synthesis of her race, class, and gender consciousness which had grown over the years. Instead of her familiar focus on black culture, however, this paper argues that Hurston uses the story of a conflictive white marriage to create an insightful social critique that challenges a patriarchal society characterized by inequalities of race, class, and gender.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12949
Subject Headings
Hurston, Zora Neale--Political and social views, Hurston, Zora Neale--Seraph on the Suwanee, Race awareness in literature
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Document (PDF)
negro para la nacion: Raza e identidad nacional en las obras de Alejo Carpentier y Jacques Roumain
Title
Un negro para la nacion: Raza e identidad nacional en las obras de Alejo Carpentier y Jacques Roumain.
Creator
Tucker, Walteria C., Florida Atlantic University, Duno-Gottberg, Luis
Abstract/Description
This study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic...
Show moreThis study questions the representation of the "black subject" in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Ecue Yamba O! (1933) and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosee (1944), in order to discuss the mechanisms of inclusion and/or "cooptation" employed by the liberal-marxist elite in their nationalist/anticolonial efforts. During the time period in which these two works were written, the ideological, economic and political interventionism of the United States inspired various movements or artistic resistence against "yankee" power in the Caribbean. My study shows how Carpentier and Roumain incorporate the "black subject" in their narratives tin order to generate a national identity to be used as an weapon against U.S. influence in their countries. I also analyze how the characterizations of these "black subjects" in ¡Ecue Yamba O! and Gouverneurs de la rosee, function within the Cuban and Haitian nationalist ideologies of the time period.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13404
Subject Headings
Roumain, Jacques,--1907-1944--Criticism and interpretation, Carpentier, Alejo,--1904-1980--Criticism and interpretation, Blacks in literature, Race awareness in literature, Blacks--Haiti--Race identity, Blacks--Cuba--Race identity, Negritude (Literary movement)
Format
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reality of fiction
Title
The reality of fiction: diagnosing white culture through the lens of mother/nature in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee.
Creator
Butler, Rita C., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Zora Neale Hurston's last published novel, Seraph on the Suwanee, can be read as a sociopolitical critique of what she once referred to as the false foundation of Anglo-Saxon civilization. An overview of the history of race as a concept and the development of racial awareness in the United States provides a background/context for understanding the world Hurston was diagnosing: her analysis implies that the social construction of whiteness contains within its ideology the seeds of its own...
Show moreZora Neale Hurston's last published novel, Seraph on the Suwanee, can be read as a sociopolitical critique of what she once referred to as the false foundation of Anglo-Saxon civilization. An overview of the history of race as a concept and the development of racial awareness in the United States provides a background/context for understanding the world Hurston was diagnosing: her analysis implies that the social construction of whiteness contains within its ideology the seeds of its own destruction. Feminist notions of origin, context, and foundation highlight the narcissistic nature of patriarchal social systems that exploit not only the female body but nature as well. In a society that supposedly honors the maternal and praises the beauty of nature, Hurston's novel suggests that both motherhood and nature are exploited by a patriarchal culture focused on competition and material gain. In addition, by highlighting the narcissism of her male protagonist, who presumably represents a socially admired standard of normalcy, she undermines the narrative of superiority that privileges a white patriarchy.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/108065
Subject Headings
Political and social views, Race awareness in literature
Format
Document (PDF)