Pacing Ethnic and Generic Gaps in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching Godand Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination: A Comparative Study

This research paper draws a line between: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God(1937) and Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination(1992) as far as the main objectives of the two writers are concerned with portraying ethnic and generic perspectives. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching Godinvestigates the writer’s incredible, yet inconspicuous, depiction of the urgency forced on her race,as well as on her sexual orientation. Hurston’s portrayal of the female heroine, her skin-shading, and even the dialect she utilizes, enables her to draw an exact picture of the African American woman in the (1930s) who refuses to submit to the mainstream norms.On the other hand, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Morrison looks at the sort of roles African American characters have been given in books not composed by them, and what ends these roles have served whether imaginative or social. The study ends with showing feminist worldviews about the African American community as witnessed by the African American writers who penetrate the actual life through imagination to defy subordination and inferiority inflicted on ethnic communities by the white cultural ideals.