Let the Timid Speak: The Woman/Nature Metaphor in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”
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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>
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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.
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J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60204 - General literature studies
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
American & British Studies Annual
ISSN
18036058
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Volume of the periodical
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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
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85179327371