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Lancaster, Iris M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Zora Neale Hurston, in "TEWWG," deconstructs the image of two important literary tropes that were deeply embedded in the African American literary tradition: the dispirited black female and the tragic mulatto. Both of these characters, Nanny as the dispirited black female and Janie as the tragic mulatto, are haunted by their traumatic histories.…
Descriptors: Novels, Discourse Analysis, Females, Literary Criticism