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Document Title ("'The Kiss of Memory': The Problem of Love in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God") And Author (Bealer, Tracy L.) And Issue Number (2-3) And Publication Title ("African American Review") And Volume Number (43)

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In the article “‘The Kiss of Memory': The Problem of Love in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God,” author Tracy L. Bealer argues that Janie’s quest for her ideal form of love, as symbolized by the pear tree in bloom, is impossible within her existing sociohistorical environment. The forces of racial and patriarchal hierarchies lead Tea Cake, who generally treats Janie as his intellectual and communal equal, to beat her in order to display his dominance to their peers. Bealer asserts that the novel’s depiction of Tea Cake, abuse and all, is intentionally ambivalent in order to simultaneously promote intersubjective love and to indict racism and sexism.

Document Title ("The compelling ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God") And Author (Ramsey, William M.) And Issue Number (1) And Publication Title ("The Southern Literary Journal") And Volume Number (27)

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Critic William M. Ramsey, in his article “The compelling ambivalence of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God,” posits that the novel stands as an unfinished and unrealized work. He backs this claim by noting the short amount of time Hurston spent writing as well as statements made by Hurston in her autobiography. Ramsey also note how the numerous contradictions inherent in the novel (Tea Cake’s treatment of Janie, Janie’s idealization of Tea Cake, Janie’s expectations of a utopian “pear tree” marriage, etc.) have led to wildly different interpretations and ultimately, a richly ambivalent text.

He also suggests that Tea Cake’s death is “Hurston’s vicarious revenge on Arthur Price,” a former lover that Hurston left to pursue a research fellowship in the Caribbean.

Cultural references

Teacake features as a passing subject of discussion in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

"Tea Cake" is the name of one of the characters in the Zora Neale Hurston novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.