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The Use of Vernacular as Cultural Defiance

D' Costa, Shaina S (2025)

The Use of Vernacular as Cultural Defiance: Politics of Respectability in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

African American Vernacular English

Black Literature

Harlem Renaissance

Politics of Respectability

Rhetorical Strategy

Language as Resistance

Author: D' Costa, Shaina S

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond

Supervisors: Lawtoo, N.

ECTS Credits: 20

Language: en