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A 5 page paper which examines issues of race and gender in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters" and Zadie Smith's "White Teeth." No additional sources cited.
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with many of the black female writers in modern fiction. Their work is unique in that they are not only women, struggling in patriarchal societies, but black as well, which
often leads to further oppression and obstacles. The following paper examines the themes of race and gender in two works by black female authors. The paper examines them separately and
then compares and contrasts the two. The novels examined are " Toni Cade Bambaras "The Salt Eaters" and Zadie Smiths "White Teeth." The Salt Eaters This particular novel is
one that speaks powerfully of a culture and race that is unique in many ways. It is a story whose setting is a small Southern Town and it primarily involves
one woman, a black woman who is, in the beginning of the novel, is determined that she wants to die. It is her essentially character, along with Minnie the healer,
that we really see issues of race and gender in this novel. The primary character, Velma, has struggled for many years for her cause, a cause that is to
bring rights to women and blacks. She is a feminist and struggles to win civil rights for people. She has spent much of life in this struggle and feels that
all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She embodies the nature of gender and race
because her whole life has been spent on these issues. When the novel opens we see her in a hospital after she has tried to kill herself. Minnie asks
her if she wants to be well. These are powerful words that open the novel to the painful struggles in life, and particularly the painful struggles felt by Velma. She
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