They were not unique events…,” (70). Gilroy’s major arguments in that particular chapter of his book was that modernity often forgets the black voices. Modernity asks, “What to do with the Negro?” However, it does not allow blacks to answer that question. Even though DuBois was highly capable of revealing what he thought about the “Negro problem,” he uses the novel to express it. He chiefly uses Zora to characterize the experience that DuBois believed African Americans should go through as they expressed modernity. His use of a dominant female as a chief vehicle to explain his thoughts was very compelling. In Rita Felski’s book, The Gender of Modernity, Fleski argues that modernism must be analyzed through the eyes of women and through a feminist perspective. The very fact that Zora is a very dominant female character, makes her characterization and analysis
They were not unique events…,” (70). Gilroy’s major arguments in that particular chapter of his book was that modernity often forgets the black voices. Modernity asks, “What to do with the Negro?” However, it does not allow blacks to answer that question. Even though DuBois was highly capable of revealing what he thought about the “Negro problem,” he uses the novel to express it. He chiefly uses Zora to characterize the experience that DuBois believed African Americans should go through as they expressed modernity. His use of a dominant female as a chief vehicle to explain his thoughts was very compelling. In Rita Felski’s book, The Gender of Modernity, Fleski argues that modernism must be analyzed through the eyes of women and through a feminist perspective. The very fact that Zora is a very dominant female character, makes her characterization and analysis