... the recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship and decided to study in Paris. Cullen lived in Paris for two years and experienced relatively little racial discrimination there. Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black ... rural South to create a brilliant study of race and gender in which a woman finds her true identity (Horton, 2002). Men were not the only active writers during the renaissance. Zora Neale...

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