摘要：Doris Lessing’s novel The Grass is Singing is compared with Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee to show how the maintenance of normalized racial and gender lines are connected to upward economic mobility. The dynamic nature of the relationship between race and gender is explored in connection to both land production and reproduction. This analysis considers the way boundaries operate in terms of maintaining, interrupting and offsetting rigid definitions of whiteness, masculinity and femininity.
