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
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Randall, Heather Sharlene Higgs, "Humans and the Red-Hot Stove: Hurston's Nature-Caution Theorizing in Their Eyes Were Watching God" (2019). Theses and Dissertations. 9107.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9107
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