@article{oai:dwcla.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002326,
 author = {志水, 智子 and SHIMIZU, Satoko},
 journal = {Asphodel},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {application/pdf, AN00000289-20220723-23, In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), the heroine, Janie, never becomes a mother after marrying different men three times. It is unnatural that she and her husbands never talk about having children. Hurston wrote this novel while she was staying in Haiti to research “voodoo” ceremonies. Erzulie Freda, a goddess in “voodoo,” has many husbands, but doesn’t have any children. It can be considered that Erzulie corresponds to Janie. 
This essay investigates why Janie does not become a mother and what messages Hurston sends in this setting. Firstly, without her children, Janie must resolve the discriminating issues, which her grandmother suffered from, in her generation and has a legal spouse as her grandmother wants her to do. Janie must resolve the issue by herself and must not pass it to the later generation. Secondly, the roles of the male spouses are emphasized if Janie remains childless. She can love and believe others positively even though she sometimes feels disillusion. Thirdly, Janie is described as an individual person without a mother-child context. Janie must be alone showing the dignity of individual solitude unlike her grandmother.
Janie is independent of blood relationships, ethnicity and the bonds between a man and a woman. She is the only interpreter of her life in the sense that she does not have later generations. She is a creator of a “closed” story of herself and tells her life without the help of another generation., 論文},
 pages = {23--39},
 title = {「母」になることのないストーリー・テラー : Their Eyes Were Watching God についての考察},
 volume = {57},
 year = {2022},
 yomi = {シミズ, サトコ}
}