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

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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Marín Calderón, Norman
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/33568
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/33568
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Afrocentrism
women
gaze
visibility
visual experience
communication
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Sumario: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.