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Library of America Zora Neale Hurston Edition Ser.: Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings (LOA #75) : Mules and Men / Tell My Horse / Dust Tracks on a Road / Essays by Zora Neale Hurston (1995, Hardcover)

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ZORA NEALE HURSTON : FOLKLORE, MEMOIRS, AND OTHER WRITINGS : MULES AND MEN, TELL MY HORSE, DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD, SELECTED ARTICLES (THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 75) - Hardcover **BRAND NEW**.

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This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of the best writing of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most significant twentieth-century American writers, in one authoritative set. "Folklore is the arts of the people," Hurston wrote, "before they find out that there is any such thing as art." A pioneer of African-American ethnography who did graduate study in anthropology with the renowned Franz Boas, Hurston devoted herself to preserving the black folk heritage. In Mules and Men (1935), the first book of African-American folklore written by an African American, she returned to her native Florida and to New Orleans to record stories and sermons, blues and work songs, children's games, courtship rituals, and formulas of voodoo doctors. This classic work is presented here with the original illustrations by the great Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. Tell My Horse (1938), part ethnography, part travel book, vividly recounts the survival of African religion in Jamaican obeah and Haitian voodoo in the 1930s. Keenly alert to political and intellectual currents, Hurston went beyond superficial exoticism to explore the role of these religious systems in their societies. The text is illustrated by twenty-six photographs, many of them taken by Hurston. Her extensive transcriptions of Creole songs are here accompanied by new translations. A special feature of this volume is Hurston's controversial 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road . With consultation by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is presented here for the first time as she intended, restoring passages omitted by the original because of political controversy, sexual candor, or fear of libel. Included in an appendix are four additional chapters, one never published, which represent earlier stages of Hurston's conception of the book. Twenty-two essays, from "The Eatonville Anthology" (1926) to "Court Order Can't Make Races Mix" (1955), demonstrate the range of Hurston's concerns as they cover subjects from religion, music, and Harlem slang to Jim Crow and American democracy. The chronology of Hurston's life prepared for this edition sheds fresh light on many aspects of her career. In addition, this volume contains detailed notes and a brief essay on the texts. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940450844
ISBN-13
9780940450844
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings (LOA #75) : Mules and Men / Tell My Horse / Dust Tracks on a Road / Essays
Author
Zora Neale Hurston
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
1024 Pages

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8.1in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz

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18
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Gr55.H86a3 1995
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
94-021384
Series
Library of America Zora Neale Hurston Edition Ser.
Illustrated
Yes

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