Afrocentrism, gaze and visual experience in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Abstract This essay focuses on how, in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), African American women get noticed through the use of gaze and visual experience. The marginalization African American women have experienced over the years makes them produce an alternative commun...

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Published inKáñina Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 261 - 269
Main Author Marín Calderón, Norman
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Portuguese
Published Universidad de Costa Rica 01.06.2018
Subjects
Linguistics
comunicación
visibility
gaze
Afrocentrismo
mirada
visual experience
Afrocentrism
experiencia visual
communication
mujeres
women
visibilidad
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Summary:Abstract This essay focuses on how, in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), African American women get noticed through the use of gaze and visual experience. The marginalization African American women have experienced over the years makes them produce an alternative communication system based on sight and visual understanding. That is, the visual takes over the impossibility of black women to express themselves verbally: instead of voice there is sight.
ISSN:2215-2636
DOI:10.15517/rk.v42i1.33568