Requirements: An analytical essay about a single text that requires the use of at least two secondary sources—your analysis providing a specific interpretation of the literary work that includes a minimum of two secondary sources but not more than four to support your points presented.Not to be less than 950 or more than 1100
Prompt #3 [Gender Boundaries]: In what ways does Janie violate typical gender boundaries? How could some of her words or actions be seen as masculine? How might men view this as a threat? Present your position with support from the text and two outside secondary sources.
Note: please make use of 2 sources. Use source in blow link as one
https://www.jstor.org/stable/464063?origin=crossref&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Also take note of the outline attached to this email for help with writing. Please do include concrete ideas as this assignment is worth 150 points. Thank you
- Prompt #2
- I am planning on using “Feminist Fantasies: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God by Jennifer Jordan from JSTOR Database of AACC library”.
Jordan, Jennifer. “Feminist Fantasies: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 7, no. 1, University of Tulsa, 1988, pp. 105–17, https://doi.org/10.2307/464063.
As second source I plan on using “Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition by Aimable Twagilimana from ProQuest Ebook Central of AACC library”.
Twagilimana, Aimable. Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition, Taylor & Francis Group, 1997. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/lib/aacc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1596787.
- [Gender Boundaries]: In what ways does Janie violate typical gender boundaries? How could some of her words or actions be seen as masculine? How might men view this as a threat? Present your position with support from the text and two outside secondary sources.
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, men and women occupy very different roles. Women are not only considered the weaker sex, but they’re fundamentally defined by their relationship to men. This is why marriage is such a big deal in the world of Hurston’s novel: women can only gain power through marriage to powerful or ambitious men.
In what ways does Janie violate typical gender boundaries?
“Janie goes against the gender boundaries by sticking up for herself when Joe insults her. Men view this as a threat because they are scared that the women are going to take control, and being men the need to protect their egos by making the women submissive
Male characters prove to their peers that they are real men by showing their wives who’s “boss.”