Susan Meisenhelder
Biographic Data
| ID | 702739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Meisenhelder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Meisenhelder |
| SIGNATURE | MEISENHELDER S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
False Gods and Black Goddesses in Naylor's Mama Day and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
As Deborah McDowell, Calvin Hernton, Valerie Smith, and others have discussed, black women writers face formidable discursive difficulties in dealing with gender issues and have often suffered bitter attacks for their treatment of intra-racial conflict between black women and men. 1 Clearly in the tradition of contemporary black women writers who focus on both race and gender oppression in the lives of black women, Gloria Naylor has acknowledged …
Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
While Mules and Men seems (and was, in fact, read by most of her contemporary reviewers as) a straightforward depiction of the humor and exoticism of African American folk culture, Zora Neale Hurston carefully arranged her folktales and meticulously delineated the contexts in which they were narrated to reveal complex relationships between race and gender in Black life. Underscoring the traditional subversive role of African American folklore, sh…
"The Whole Picture" in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
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"The Whole Picture" in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
While Mules and Men seems (and was, in fact, read by most of her contemporary reviewers as) a straightforward depiction of the humor and exoticism of African American folk culture, Zora Neale Hurston carefully arranged her folktales and meticulously delineated the contexts in which they were narrated to reveal complex relationships between race and gender in Black life. Underscoring the traditional subversive role of African American folklore, sh…
False Gods and Black Goddesses in Naylor's Mama Day and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
As Deborah McDowell, Calvin Hernton, Valerie Smith, and others have discussed, black women writers face formidable discursive difficulties in dealing with gender issues and have often suffered bitter attacks for their treatment of intra-racial conflict between black women and men. 1 Clearly in the tradition of contemporary black women writers who focus on both race and gender oppression in the lives of black women, Gloria Naylor has acknowledged …
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Oppression (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African american (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art history (1 work)