Category: zora neale hurston

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+ Basic Black With Pearls, charlotte perkins gilman, Helen Weinzweig, kate chopin, Pierre Bonnard, zora neale hurston

Trapped in a Cage in Helen Weinzweig’s “Basic Black with Pearls”

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Every now and then, I get to the point where I’m not sure what I want to read. When that happens, I go to my bookshelves and start to browse, pulling down a book, reading the description and the first page, then returning the book until I come upon one that I want to read. This process is how I came to read Helen … Read More Trapped in a Cage in Helen Weinzweig’s “Basic Black with Pearls”

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+ alice walker, ernest j gaines, toni morrison, writing, zora neale hurston

Writing Saves Lives

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Next semester, I’m teaching Alice Walker’s The Color Purple alongside a couple of her essays, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Ernest Gaines’ Of Love and Dust, and other works. Preparing for the class, I recently read Walker’s 1976 essay “Saving the Life That is Your Own: The Importance of Models in the Artist’s Life.” Walker wrote the essay in the mid-1970s, at a moment … Read More Writing Saves Lives

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+ a letter from phillis wheatley, london 1773, a raisin in the sun, arnold friend, how it feels to be colored me, joyce carol oates, judges 19, lorraine hansberry, maecenas, new year, phillis wheatley, robert hayden, the blood brothers, to maecenas, zora neale hurston

Most Viewed Posts of 2021

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I haven’t a done a “Most Viewed Posts” in a while, so I thought I’d do one to wrap up 2021. Over the past three years, Interminable Rambling has grown exponentially. I never thought, when I started this site back in August 2015 I didn’t have any expectations. I started Interminable Rambling over on Blogger before migrating it to WordPress in 2016, so I … Read More Most Viewed Posts of 2021

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+ a small place, citizen: an american lyric, claudia rankine, glenn ligon, jamaica kincaid, killers of the dream, lillian e smith, zora neale hurston

The “historical self” and the “self self”: Part II

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In last Thursday’s post, I wrote about the “historical self” and the “self self” that Claudia Rankine references in one of the vignettes in Citizen: An American Lyric. Today, I want to finish that discussion by looking some more at Rankine’s work, Lillian Smith, and concluding with Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place.

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+ african american literature, american literature, double conciousness, how it feels to be colored me, southern literature, w.e.b. dubois, zora neale hurston

Rhetorically Examining Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It Feels to be Colored Me!”

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A few posts ago, I wrote about W.E.B. Du Bois and double consciousness. As part of this discussion, I looked at the ways that some artists, such as Charles Chesnutt and Frank Yerby navigated the literary landscape in relation to what readers expected from their works and how readers responded. Today, I want to briefly take a look at Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It … Read More Rhetorically Examining Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It Feels to be Colored Me!”

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