Consider issues of power, control, autonomy, freedom, and self in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road book. Discuss how Carolyn G. Heilbrun’s Writing a Woman’s Life (pg. 1 to 31), ideas about these themes in women’s autobiography are or are not applicable to Hurston’s autobiography. How does Hurston consider, approach, and wield power within her narrative? Offer examples from her text.


