Michelle Nadine McFarland -- Africana Library, Cornell University

Author: Michelle Nadine McFarland

Title: Planting the Seeds: The Role of Zofa Neale Hurston in the Development of a Distinct African-American Feminist Voice

Degree Date: August 1991

Committee Chairperson: William E. Cross, Jr.

Call Number: Thesis DT 3 .5 1991 M47843

Description: vi, 95 leaves; 29 cm.

Abstract: This thesis examines the evolution of the Black feminist literary tradition and the significance Zora Neale Hurston is accorded in its origin.

The images of Black women in nineteenth and early twentieth century literary texts, written by Black women, are analyzed to show how Black women depicted themselves prior to Hurston. This followed by a close reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God, which sets the stage for the concluding chapter in which Hurston not only is viewed as link a between the literary past and present but is determined to be perhaps the most important figure in the forging of the self-conscious African-American heroine.


	Library Gateway \| Library Catalog \| Find: Articles Databases e-Journals \| Ask a Librarian

Print This Page Thesis Abstract Author: Michelle Nadine McFarland Title: Planting the Seeds: The Role of Zofa Neale Hurston in the Development of a Distinct African-American Feminist Voice Degree Date: August 1991 Committee Chairperson: William E. Cross, Jr. Call Number: Thesis DT 3 .5 1991 M47843 Description: vi, 95 leaves; 29 cm. Abstract: This thesis examines the evolution of the Black feminist literary tradition and the significance Zora Neale Hurston is accorded in its origin. The images of Black women in nineteenth and early twentieth century literary texts, written by Black women, are analyzed to show how Black women depicted themselves prior to Hurston. This followed by a close reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God, which sets the stage for the concluding chapter in which Hurston not only is viewed as link a between the literary past and present but is determined to be perhaps the most important figure in the forging of the self-conscious African-American heroine.

Thesis Abstract