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Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature rad. Dip., La Trobe University. Australia. 1995 M.A., La Trobe University. Australia. 1996A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

for the degree ofDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHYinTHE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES(ENGLISH)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA38687© Duong Thuy Thi Pham. 20051Abs Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

tract........................................................iiTable of contents..............................................iiiCHAPTER I: Gender Rep

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

resentations in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston,William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes,And Edith Wharton................2CHAPTER II: Gender Representations in

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature ’ And HuckleberryFinn....................................................... 30Works Cited.....................................................88Notes

...........................................................932CHAPTER I: GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN THE WORKS OF ZORA NEALEHL RSTON, WILLIAM FAULKNER, Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

DJUNA BARNES, AND EDITH WHARTONZORA NEALE HURSTON’S THEIR. EYES WERE WATCHING GODMissy Kubitschek attacks the common critical oversimplification of th

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

e character Janie as a black woman in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Kubitschck asserts that Janie is a true heroine on a quest for her identity and me

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature y critics, according to Kubitschck. trivialize or subordinate Janie; they see nothing more than a woman searching for romantic love or. alternatively,

a subordinate spouse for a dominant male character. While romantic love is indeed an essential element of Janie's life, Kubitschek contends that Jani Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

e's adventures represent a successful struggle to bring her life into harmony with her vision of the pear tree, the symbol of human life.Kubilschck de

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

fines a successful quest as answering the call to adventure, crossing the threshold into the unknown, facing trials, finding the reward, and returning

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature ny between her first marriage and the pear tree evaporates. She again crosses the threshold separating personal safety from the risk necessary to fulf

ilment embodied in fca Cake. Part of the quest requires her to undergo trials in her marriage to l ea Cake on the road to development. The trials come Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

on the individual level (the possibility of3personal betrayal when she finds Tea Cake responding on some level to Nunkie’s sexual invitation), the so

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

cial level (in the form of Mrs. Turner, a black woman who idolizes white culture, and thus poses a threat to the black community), and through nature

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature on on her own terms: b) acceptance of Tea Cake's anger and the conununity's violent annihilation of Mrs. Turner’s threat to its integrity: and c) use

of memory as a means of transcending Tea Cake's death. Her reward is full participation in conununity expression and construction with the people in t Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

he Everglades. Janie’s quest comes to a full circle when she returns to Eatonville to share her experience and reward with the conununity there throug

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

h her friend Pheoby. thereby enabling the community to learn from her experience in a call and response fashion analogous to that of the work songs co

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature o self-awareness. Janie transcends the societal norms designed to keep women in their place.At the beginning of the story, Janie is prevented from lis

tening to her inner voice by the societal emphasis on material possessions and her own lack of self-esteem. As a result, she looks to others for guida Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

nce and fulfillment: first to Logan Killicks with his sixty acres of land and later to Joe Starks, the mayor of Eatonville. Both men regard himself as

Gender and race representations in twentieth century american literature

important and Janie as secondary, or important only by association, and resent the nonchalant way she holds them and their possessions. For this reas

GENDER AND RA CE REPRESENT A TIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTVR Y AMERICAN LITERATUREbyDUONG THUYTHI PHAMB.A.. University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1988 Gr