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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
Format
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
Document (PDF)
Embodied Mimicry: Lightening Black Bodies in the Visual Rhetoric of Popular 20th Century Black Media
Title
Embodied Mimicry: Lightening Black Bodies in the Visual Rhetoric of Popular 20th Century Black Media.
Creator
Judge-Hemans, Janéa, Heidt, Stephen, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description
This study analyzes various forms of visual and textual rhetoric found in popular black-owned print media from 1900-1970, including: beauty product advertisements, magazine cover photography and feature articles in order to contribute to a rhetorical history of color bias within the African-American community. The imagery included here validated and encouraged the transformation and lightening of African-American bodies through what I call embodied mimicry in order to achieve dominance within...
Show moreThis study analyzes various forms of visual and textual rhetoric found in popular black-owned print media from 1900-1970, including: beauty product advertisements, magazine cover photography and feature articles in order to contribute to a rhetorical history of color bias within the African-American community. The imagery included here validated and encouraged the transformation and lightening of African-American bodies through what I call embodied mimicry in order to achieve dominance within the racial group and a semblance of acceptance outside of it. Mimicry of white societal standards by African-Americans including: formatting of print media, circulation of beauty ads and physical embodiment of white physical features ultimately re-inscribed the tenets of racism into the black public sphere in the form of colorism. The intention of this research is to analyze the rhetorical history of colorism in order to better understand the current state of colorism in American society.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004719, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004719
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Color -- Social aspects, Black race -- Color, Colorism -- United States, Ethnicity in mass media, Human skin color -- Social aspects, Mass media and minorities, Race awareness, Racism in mass media
Format
Document (PDF)
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)
Minority representation in popular culture
Title
Minority representation in popular culture.
Creator
Miller, Jeffrey, Youngberg, Quentin, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis focuses on the continuous misrepresentations that appear throughout different outlets of popular culture and the negative impacts of these misrepresentations. In the first chapter, the focus will be on the films The Last of the Mohicans and The Mission and the origins and implications of the misrepresentation of Indians in film. The second chapter uses rap music videos such as 50 Cent’s In Da Club, Nelly’s Tip Drill, LMFAO and Lil John’s Shots, Where Da Hood At, Tupac’s Hit ‘Em up...
Show moreThis thesis focuses on the continuous misrepresentations that appear throughout different outlets of popular culture and the negative impacts of these misrepresentations. In the first chapter, the focus will be on the films The Last of the Mohicans and The Mission and the origins and implications of the misrepresentation of Indians in film. The second chapter uses rap music videos such as 50 Cent’s In Da Club, Nelly’s Tip Drill, LMFAO and Lil John’s Shots, Where Da Hood At, Tupac’s Hit ‘Em up, and N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton as primary texts to demonstrate the one dimensional and problematic representations of African American Identity in the rap music industry. The third and final chapter uses the video games Grand Theft Auto III and Gun as examples of the negative representations that occur and are repeated quickly in the rapidly improving world of video games. While the misrepresentations are achieved and perpetuated differently in each medium, their ubiquitous presence in popular culture calls for discussion.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004139, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004139
Subject Headings
African Americans in popular culture, Ethnicity, Mass media and culture, Native Americans in motion pictures, Popular culture -- United States, Race awareness, Social classes in mass media, Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Format
Document (PDF)