ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD: STORYTELLING AND THE BLUES AS ASPECTS OF DIASPORIC SURVIVAL | ||
| مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Article 9, Volume 67, Issue 67, August 2020, Pages 11-31 PDF (1.46 M) | ||
| Document Type: العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/artman.2020.157306 | ||
| Author | ||
| حماده عبدالفتاح يوسف | ||
| کلية الآداب- جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is examined to demonstrate how storytelling and the blues, as aspects of diasporic survival, function in her fiction which depicts how African cultural heritage operates in the United States. She articulates the need for her black folks throughout diaspora to confront racism by employing their African cultural heritage as a vehicle for empowerment. Janie, Hurston’s protagonist, finds that when she embraces her African heritage not only does she gain great awareness of her selfhood better as African American, but she also discovers that her Africanity and her identity are intertwined | ||
| Keywords | ||
| African cultural heritage; diaspora; storytelling; the blues; and Afro-American vernacular | ||
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