EN 220 Lecture 22: EN 220 031017
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Social issues (sexual orientation, gender, race, etc. ) We have been dealing with each of these in various works. All 3 of them in the sun also rises. These are all things that fragment the modern identity. Hurston is writing for white patrons and black artists seemed to want to write black art for black people (creating a social issue) The gilded six-bits frames the idea of blackness and humanness. Another black person upheaved this family instead of a white family. Therefore, zora subverts what is expected of her. For the test: when joe is buying candy and the clerk makes the point that black people just laugh all the time and nothing worries them. Hurston wants this line to look ironic - the story was an intense and sad story, not a laughing matter at all. The white man is a caricature and he makes a caricature of the black story. Man born in mississippi during the harlem renaissance.
