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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University
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2008
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2008
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Zora Neale Hurston is recognized as an important American literary figure,
but the majority of her fiction is overshadowed by the critical attention given to her
most popular novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Just as her short stories remain
relatively ignored by critics, little is written about her thoughts regarding nature and
the human relationship with the natural environment. This thesis draws upon the
recent growth of ecocriticism and ecofeminist literary criticism in an attempt to
interpret Hurston's environmental thought as manifested in three of her early short
stories, "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Magnolia Flower," and "Sweat." In this study,
I show that even in her early short stories, Hurston's fiction is ripe with imagery and
narrative that blend the natural with the cultural while effectively illustrating and
engaging the interconnectedness between social inequality and environmental
degradation in the South.
but the majority of her fiction is overshadowed by the critical attention given to her
most popular novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Just as her short stories remain
relatively ignored by critics, little is written about her thoughts regarding nature and
the human relationship with the natural environment. This thesis draws upon the
recent growth of ecocriticism and ecofeminist literary criticism in an attempt to
interpret Hurston's environmental thought as manifested in three of her early short
stories, "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Magnolia Flower," and "Sweat." In this study,
I show that even in her early short stories, Hurston's fiction is ripe with imagery and
narrative that blend the natural with the cultural while effectively illustrating and
engaging the interconnectedness between social inequality and environmental
degradation in the South.
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79 p.
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FA00000953
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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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FA00000953
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
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Redman, F. Russell
Graduate College
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79 p.
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Nature's Place in Zora Neale Hurston's "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Magnolia Flower," and "Sweat"
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2008
2008
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Title
Nature's Place in Zora Neale Hurston's "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Magnolia Flower," and "Sweat"
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Nature's Place in Zora Neale Hurston's "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Magnolia Flower," and "Sweat"