- How does Hurston’s Mules and Men relate to Alain Locke’s wish to “scrap the fictions” and start fresh in the Harlem Renaissance? Can the two works and ideas coexist?
- How do the gendered stories in Mules and Men relate to our conceptions of “other” in the transatlantic world?
- Does Johnson’s wish to emulate Synge suggest a similar type of cultural performance which we discussed within Synge’s description of the Aran Islands despite his intentions to be authentic?