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Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007. / Title from title page. Margaret Harper, committee chair; Christopher Kocela, Daniel Black, committee members. Electronic text (63 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 11, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63).

'Making a Way Out of No Way"': Zora Neale Hurston"'s Hidden Discourse of Resistance"u201d explores how Hurston used techniques she derived from the trickster tradition of African American folk culture in her narratives in order to resist and undermine the racism of the dominant discourse found in popular literature published during her lifetime. Critics have condemned her perceived willingness to use racist stereotypes in her work in order to pander to a white reading audience. This project asserts that Hurston did, indeed, don a "u201cmask of minstrelsy"u201d to play into her reading public"'s often racist expectations in order to succeed as an academic and as a creative writer. At the same time, however, she crafted her narratives in a way that destabilized those expectations through use of sometimes subtle and sometimes blatant points of resistance. In this way, she was able to participate in a system that was rigged against her, as a woman and as an African American, by playing into the expectations of her audiences for economic and professional advantages while simultaneously undermining aspects of those expectations through rhetorical "u201cwinks,"u201d exaggeration, sarcasm, and other forms of humor that enabled her to stay true to her personal values. While other scholars have examined Hurston"'s discourse of resistance, this project takes a different approach by placing Hurston"'s material in relation to the publishing climate at the time. Chapter One examines Mules and Men in the context of the revisions Hurston made to her scholarly work to transform her collection of folktales into a cohesive book marketed to a popular reading audience. Chapter Two focuses on Hurston"'s often-maligned anthropological travel book, Tell My Horse, as it forms a counter-narrative to the sensational and surreal travelogue by William Seabrook, The Magic Island. Chapter Three analyzes Their Eyes Were Watching God alongside DuBose Heyward"'s Porgy to demonstrate how Hurston resists the dominant narrative of black womanhood by creating a strong and self-affirming female role model. / Elizabeth A. Kalos-Kaplan

A questionnaire survey of the 385 Indiana high schools was conducted to determine how many of a selected list of 150 titles of Black literature the schools owned and the factors that appeared to be related to the acquisition of that number of titles.The 72 per cent response was analyzed to determine whether the following were related to the size of the Afro-American collections concerning the library--the size of the total book collection, the money available for purchase of books and periodicals, the person making the final decision about buying books, and the existence of a written book selection policy; concerning the school-the total student enrollment, the percentage of Black students, the size of the community the school serves, and the existence of units or courses in Black studies; concerning the librarian-the age, sex, education, and experience of the librarian.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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