This course endeavors to highlight the way the concept of Orality is integrated within the field of the African American Modernist literature. To achieve this objective this course has been divided into two chapters. The first part of the course recalls an introduction to modernism, then a study of the African American modernist literature. The second part of the course deals with the analysis of the cultural and linguistic aspects of Orality used within Zora Neal Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. To sum up, the integration of these oral traditions into the African American literary writings may provide them with richness, quality as well as a wide consideration on one hand, and on the other hand, it bestowed the oral Black heritage prominence and persistence in the American literature.
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