1. Nature and the Domestic and the Struggle for Identity in Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ásdís Björnsdóttir

2. Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 Eatonville Bernard antropology
Harlem Renaissance 20 and 30’s
Marginalized for folklore
1975 Alice walker IN search for ZNH

3. The ideal self: the desired state of being The real self: the actual, current self image
Carl rogers
Difference between the two indicates amount of insecurity

4. Ideal self in nature
Trees
Janie beginning end
Deliah
Body image
Food

5. Ireal self represented through the domestic
Not good vs bad right or wrong but two facades of self both necessary
Proud
Limbo

6. Emerging Black identity:
Founded on cultural roots (The domestic represents the real self)
Racial eqality a common goal (nature and the desired ideal self)
“You ain’t goin’ off in all dat mess uh commonness. Ah’m surprised at yuh fuh askin’”
Cause of marginalisation as well as being unpolitical
Anthropology
To sum up: concerned with idenity