Title
Humans and the Red-Hot Stove: Hurston's Nature-Caution Theorizing in Their Eyes Were Watching God
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
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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