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their eyes

Date Submitted: 11/07/2004 16:30:02
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (688 words)
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…of Their Eyes Were Watching God, "for most Black women readers discovering Their Eyes for the first time, what was most compelling was the figure of Janie Crawford - powerful, articulate, self-reliant, and radically different from any woman character they had ever before encountered in literature." Janie Crawford is defiant; she defies men, but most importantly, she defies our own preconceived notions of what the role of an African-American woman should be in modern literature.

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