The aim of this paper is to analyze race and gender perspectives encountered in Zora
Neale Hurston’s memoir Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942). In order to
do so, I have first written a theoretical chapter on the genre of autobiography and then I
have contextualized the history of African Americans from the Colonial Period until the
Harlem Renaissance. Finally, I have analyzed the issues of race and gender present in
her autobiography in order to show the inequalities and stereotypes about colored people
in the earlier American 20th century.
El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar las perspectivas de raza y género encontradas en la
autobiografía de Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942).
Para ello, he escrito primero un capitulo teórico del género de las memorias y después
he contextualizado la historia de los Afro-americanos desde la época colonial hasta el
Renacimiento del Harlem. Finalmente, he analizado aspectos de raza y género presentes
en su autobiografía para mostrar las desigualdades y estereotipos existentes contra las
personas de color en la América de principios del siglo XX.
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