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This thesis discusses the discourse on trauma as relevant to both African American female leads within the novels: The Color Purple , by Alice Walker; T heir Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neale Hurston; and Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison as well as the male leads that we c…

This dissertation investigates four epistolary works by modern women writers of color where the issues of gender, genre, and culture or race interconnect, in the hope of providing a better understanding of how the mode of the unsent/unanswered letter breaks the borderline betwee…