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A 6 page paper which examines this novel represents itself as a feminist text, particularly in terms of Nanny’s influence on her granddaughter, Janie Crawford, and its portrayal of male-female relationships. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Neale Hurstons 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This was a groundbreaking text because the author was an African-American woman, an unknown quantity in the Depression era that
was still very much a white mans world. Literature, in particular, remained a male-dominated club in which few women - especially African Americans - were granted membership. Hurston
tackles the patriarchy head on in Their Eyes Were Watching God as she pens what may well be the first great American feminist text, one that features the deceptively simply
premise "that men think and behave one way and women another" (Lester 79). The novels protagonist is a middle-aged, thrice married black woman named Janie Crawford, who returns to
her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, after an extended absence and amid much public speculation as to why she is returning without her third husband. After reuniting with her old
friend Phoeby Watson, Janie recounts her journey of self-discovery, a solitary and independent course which future feminists will chart for themselves. Janies road
to liberation is paved by her relationships. First, there is Nanny Crawford, whose experiences as a slave are like a wound that never completely heals. She was humiliated
by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who threatens to sell her infant daughter. She manages to escape to Florida, but dreams
of a better life for herself and her child are shattered when her daughter is raped by a black schoolteacher (Bloom 99-100). As she sees it, "The white man
dumps his load on the black man to carry and the black man dumps his load on the black woman to carry," and "De nigger woman is da mule of
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