在索拉．尼爾．赫斯頓1937年的小說《他們眼望上蒼》中，主人翁珍妮．克勞芙德作為一位20世紀初期的美國黑人女性，打破了長久以來社會對於非裔女性情慾的主流論述，並爭取了自身的能動性與身體掌控權。本論文致力於解構當時形塑女人氣質文化(True Womanhood)的主流，其主流將女人二分化為被動溫順或主動危險的身體。同時也建構一個含括種族、性別、階級等互為交織的黑人女性身份。另外，本文將援引哈莉葉．雅各布斯1861年的小說《一名女奴的人生際遇》以及內拉．拉森1928的小說《流沙》以共同探討黑人女性氣質文化、黑人女性情慾、生育、母性等議題。
主人翁珍妮．克勞芙德在其人生的旅途中分別戰勝了她的祖母以及三個丈夫，而這些人在不同程度上皆試圖將她囚禁於家庭場域中或威脅到其生存。然而，拒絕服從扮演好孫女/好妻子/好媽媽的珍妮並沒有因此失去主流文化賦予女性的陰性特質與快樂生活。前往地平線(象徵著美好事物的探索過程)也幫助珍妮銳化她早期對盛開梨子樹(象徵愛情)天真的想像。若地平線是一趟旅程，則對梨子樹的憧憬是一股動力。從自然意象中，小至一棵樹、大至一場颶風，都牽引了珍妮重建黑人女性氣質文化，重新取回對情慾、享樂權、以及發聲的自主權。

In Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Zora Neale Hurston presents an alternative black heroine, Janie Crawford, who claims full agency and bodily control despite the pervasive discourse about morally inferior black female bodies in early 20th century American context. This study aims to not only deconstruct the ideology of True Womanhood that dichotomizes women into either passive and obedient bodies or active and dangerous bodies, but also to reconstruct an intersectional black female identity including race, gender, and class aspects. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs and Quicksand (1928) by Nella Larsen will also be referred to respectively for their engagements with black female sexuality, reproduction, and motherhood.
During Janie Crawford’s journey, she defeats her grandmother, Nanny, and her three husbands, Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake, who all, to different degrees attempt to confine her in domestic spheres or threaten her survival. In refusing to conform to being a good granddaughter/wife/mother, Janie is nevertheless not deprived of any of the femininity or happiness that True Womanhood has promised. Traveling to the horizon (the exploration of possibility) and back also enables Janie to sharpen her early innocent visions of the pear tree in blossom which symbolizes love. If the horizon is her adventure, the pear tree image serves as motivation, through which natural elements, from an inspiring tree to a destructive hurricane, help Janie reconstruct black womanhood, reclaiming her sexuality, her right to pleasure, and her voice.

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