Alice Walker’s discovery of Womanist Zora Neale Hurston: Janie in Their Eyes were Watching God
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2022.
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10361-179212023-02-26T21:01:44Z Alice Walker’s discovery of Womanist Zora Neale Hurston: Janie in Their Eyes were Watching God Orpa, Shanchary Kader Mohammad Noman, Dr. Abu Sayeed Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Alice Walker Zora Neale Hurston Feminist theory. African American women. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2022. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-71). The paper will touch on Walker’s quest for Zora Neale Hurston, learning about her grave to coming across her grave and most importantly her most notable work Their Eyes Were Watching God. The thesis will focus on Hurston’s text as a womanist one with reference to Alice Walker’s Womanist prose collection In Search of Our Mothers’ Lost Gardens and will look at Hurston’s representation of black culture, traditions, communities and people through the protagonist Janie’s surroundings. Added to that, Hurston’s normalization of female sexuality, intellect along with her right of choice in case of her partners, quest for self hood, love and freedom even for a woman of colour through the portrayal of Janie would be emphasized. Consequently, the metaphorical meanings of ‘Pear Tree’, ‘Road’, ‘Horizon’, etc. along with Janie’s growth from a girl to a woman through her experiences with her three husbands, her evolving way of living and thinking will all be looked at. Only the cumulative view of all these things can make us reach a better understanding of the Womanist protagonist, the text and the author herself to fill certain gaps in existing written materials and ponder about possibilities of further research. Shanchary Kader Orpa B.A. in English 2023-02-26T08:54:17Z 2023-02-26T08:54:17Z 2022 2022-05 Thesis ID: 18103036 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/17921 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 71 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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