Jamie’s Psychological Journey in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jamie’s Psychological Journey in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author(s): Smaranda Ştefanovici Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Petru Maior
Keywords: Harlem Renaissance; black woman; psychological journey; quest for wholeness
Summary/Abstract: The paper will analyze the evolving image of Jamie Crawford, a young Afro-American woman in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God. The analysis will show how she is mainly defined in terms of her relation to men who fail to recognize her right to individuality and identity as a black woman. The feminist approach will also highlight Hurston’s dissociation from Afro-American literary tradition which is abounding in stereotyped images of black female characters who suffer from white oppression by presenting Jamie who is a victim of black community.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 82-86
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English