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Let the Timid Speak: The Woman/Nature Metaphor in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17250%2F23%3AA2402MZH" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17250/23:A2402MZH - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2494" target="_blank" >https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2494</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/absa.2023.16.2494" target="_blank" >10.46585/absa.2023.16.2494</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Let the Timid Speak: The Woman/Nature Metaphor in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”

  • Original language description

    This article explores Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” (1926) from an ecofeminist perspective. When it comes to the role of nature in Hurston’s writing, ecocritical as well as feminist discussions often romanticize the role of nature in the lives of Hurston’s characters. Hurston’s short story “Sweat,” however, has generally been overlooked by ecocritics and ecofeminists, despite the fact that the story’s female protagonist Delia is repeatedly linked with nature or animals in the text. The aim of this paper is thus to examine the manner in which the main character Delia as well as her abusive husband Sykes are associated with nature, including animals, in order to critically assess the abuse Delia is subjected to. Particular attention is then devoted to three main parts of the story: Delia’s connection to her pony, the village men’s conversations and their subsequent comparison of Delia to sugar cane as well as Hurston’s reenactment of the fall from the Garden of Eden. Throughout the analysis, the focus is on the presence of dehumanization related to animalization or naturalization as well as on Hurston’s depiction of the dualistic character of the metaphors woman/nature and woman/animal along with the impact such associations have on Hurston’s characters.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60204 - General literature studies

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    American & British Studies Annual

  • ISSN

    18036058

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2023-12-05

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    9-22

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85179327371