"Humans and the Red-Hot Stove: Hurston's Nature-Caution Theorizing in T" by Heather Sharlene Higgs Randall

Abstract

This paper gives critical attention to the nature versus caution porch conversation in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, arguing that this is a legitimate addition to the anthropological discussion of nature versus culture. Addressing literary critics as well as scholars of the environmental humanities and of multispecies studies, I argue that Hurston's nature-caution discussion is a helpful epistemology which Hurston employs throughout her novel to suggest a single, unified way of understanding the human and nonhuman.

Degree

MA

College and Department

Humanities; English

Rights

https://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/

Date Submitted

2019-12-02

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd11745

Keywords

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, nature, culture, multispecies studies, environmental humanities

Language

english

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