Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings

Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Secondary Author: Cheryl A. Wall
ISBN: 0940450844

When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale Hurston's books were out of print. Today her groundbreaking works, suffused with the culture and traditions of African-Americans and the poetry of black speech, have won her recognition as one of the most significant African-American writers. This volume, with its companion, Novels & Stories brings together for the first time all of Hurston's best writings 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 herseif 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 ho

Publisher: Library of America
Publish Date: 1995

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Literary Collections / American / African American

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