Big Read Program: An Evening With Dr. Deborah Plant At Decatur Public Library

The Georgia Center for the Book presents a lecture with Zora Neale Hurston scholar Dr. Deborah Plant. Author of Every Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neal Hurston, Plant discusses Hurston's personal philosophy of individualism and self-preservation. Plant also talks of Hurston's preacher father and her influential mother - whose guiding philosophy is reflected in the title of this book - as well as the influence of philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Friedrich Nietzsche.… Show more Through their works, Plant provides a perspective on the driving forces behind Hurston's powerful prose.
This program is free of charge and takes place at the Decatur Public Library.

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