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Article: Waste and Whiteness: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Eugenics.
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 2000
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Readings of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) have often focused on the text's racial and gender problems, either critiquing the text's failure to measure up to the racial consciousness and feminism evident in Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) or reversing this critique by claiming that Seraph's power lies in its heavily coded championing of its protagonist, Arvay Meserve. [1] Janet St. Clair observes that "Seraph on the Suwanee has been virtually ignored by all but authors of full-length studies of Hurston, and even they generally scurry across its surface in consternation" (39). Among the critics' anxieties are the fact that Arvay is not a "feminist" ...
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Article: Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice.
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