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A 3 page essay that analyzes Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" in terms of oppression, which equates the brutality of the protagonist's husband with the mechanics of white imperialism. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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achieve a renaissance in African cultures requires, according to Thiongo, the people must "control the wealth they produce" and "free it from internal and external parasites" (Thiongo, 2004). Zora Neale
Hurstons protagonist in her short story "Sweat" does precisely what Thiongo instructs when she frees herself from the tyranny of her husband, who in many ways represents the legacy of
slavery and white domination. The story begins with Hurston introducing the reader to Delia Jones, a black woman living in Florida who makes her living by doing laundry. The
fact that Delia does laundry by hand and the mention of a horse and buckboard places the narrative probably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. Delias patrons are
the white people who live in the vicinity. According to Delias freeloading husband, Sykes, the fact that Delia takes in washing for white people is unacceptable. He says, "Ah done
promised God and a couple of other men, Ah aint gointer have it in mah house" (Hurston, 2004). Early on in the story, however, Hurston makes it clear that
Sykes grandstanding is merely a ruse intended to disguise his true motivations. Rather than making a political statement against white oppression, Sykes is trying to drive Delia from the relationship
and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells him, "Mah tub of suds is
filled yo belly with vittles more times than yo hand is filled it. Mah sweat is done paid for this house and Ah reckon Ah kin keep on sweatin
in it" (Hurston, 2004). As this suggests, rather than Sykes representing an oppressed minority, in actuality, Hurston associates him symbolically with the historical forces that have oppressed black people
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