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This 3 page paper discusses Hurston's attitude toward her ethnicity as evidenced in her essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" and how that attitude informs the character of Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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find a richly deserved audience. This paper discusses Hurstons attitude toward her ethnicity as evidenced in her essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" and how that attitude
informs the character of Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Discussion Hurstons essay is very funny and also atypical: she doesnt complain about how society is
set up by whites (white men at least) and run for the benefit of other white men though she could easily do so; neither does she look back at slavery
and complain of the psychological damage that has done to African-Americans, though she would be justified in doing that as well. Instead, she says that its her identity as
a woman that defines her: "The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads" (Hurston, 1928).
This attitude is also found in the book, in which Janies search is to find out who she is and forge an identity that is not dependent on men; she
wants to become a fully realized woman, not a fully realized black woman. In fact, whites dont appear in the book very often, and when they do, they are
unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the novel, Sherley Anne Williams says that "Janie
is an idealized black woman, a vision of the best a black woman might be without racist-inspired self-images: pretty, trusting, and self-confident, but still wiling to risk a dream" (Williams,
1991, xxviii). When Williams says that Janie isnt saddled with "racist-inspired self-images" she means that Janie hasnt been brainwashed by racist whites into believing that shes a subhuman animal,
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