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Submitted by mssincere08 on May 6, 2007
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It was and still is very common for African-American authors to write texts that reflect upon each other. In The Signifying Monkey, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. carefully and thoroughly explained the way that authors review the text of authors and make it their own. Similarities between texts help the reader to understand how texts are signified upon each other. African-Americans had to write themselves in to the American literary genre. In the process, they developed a style and a genre of their own.
African-American women had a harder time writing themselves into the literary world. Because they were double minorities, it was often believed that they were incapable of producing quality literary works. Writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Alice Walker, however, have proven that women are capable of writing exceptional texts. These writers also shared the common task of showing the strengths as well as the weaknesses of African-American women through the characters portrayed in their texts. Zora Neale Hurston used Jamie Crawford in Their Eyes were Watching God, Ann Petry used Lutie Johnson in The Street, and Alice Walker used Miss Celie and Sophia in The Color Purple. Each of these women sought some form of freedom and each woman reached their own level of freeness, although they achieved it in their own ways.
Their Eyes were Watching God is the story of Jamie Crawford and it is set in Eatonville, FL during the early twentieth century. Hurston used the trope of the speakerly text as it is described in The Signifying Monkey. Gates claims that the speakerly text "is the text whose rhetorical strategy is designed to represent an oral literary tradition designed to ‘emulate the phonetic, grammatical, and lexical patterns of actual speech and produce the illusion of oral narration.'" In other words, Hurston used Jamie to tell a story within the story. She also used dialect as a pattern in order to create a more realistic story and to...
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