1 Influential and richness of Hurston’s novel
Once of the aims of Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African-American Woman is to explore the rich and varied literary tradition of novels that that deal with domestic abuse within the African-American community. This tradition began with Zora Neale Hurston in the 1920s and 1930 , and, since then, it has flourished and taken different forms because of the diverse body of fiction created by more contemporary African-American women writers. Zora Neale Hurston is not merely important to African-American literature, but she, as Maria Frias Rudodolphi emphasizes in her essay “Marriage Doesn’t Make Love: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God,” is a writer”canonized as the ‘literary ancestor’ of provocative writers” like Toni Morrison, alice Walker, Gloria Naylor and others, who follow in her tradition. Because the the tradition of giving voice to domestic violence within the African-American community began with Zora Neale Hurston, it is important to devote a chapter of this book to her treatment of domestic abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching, not only to examine Hurston’s novel for its own sake, but also since it spawned such a rich and diverse tradition of novels which follow in its footsteps by confronting the widespread problem of domestic abuse.
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