Every Tongue Got To Confess

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060934545
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Tongue Got to Confess written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates African American life in the rural South and represents a major part of Zora Neale Hurston's literary legacy.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780060188931
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Tongue Got to Confess written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences." -- From the Foreword by John Edgar Wideman African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920s, Every Tongue Got to Confess is the third volume of folk-tales from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It is published here for the first time. These hilarious, bittersweet, often saucy folk-tales -- some of which date back to the Civil War -- provide a fascinating, verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. Arranged according to subject -- from God Tales, Preacher Tales, and Devil Tales to Heaven Tales, White-Folk Tales, and Mistaken Identity Tales -- they reveal attitudes about slavery, faith, race relations, family, and romance that have been passed on for generations. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston. In the foreword, author John Edgar Wideman discusses the impact of Hurston's pioneering effort to preserve the African-American oral tradition and shows readers how to read these folk tales in the historical and literary context that has -- and has not -- changed over the years. And in the introduction, Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan explains how these folk-tales were collected, lost, and found, and examines their profound significance today. In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Zora Neale Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people and pays tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Africanized language that flourishes to this day.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061741809
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Tongue Got to Confess written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—New York Times Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious taleswhich range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, White Folk, and Mistaken Identity to witty one-linersreveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates the African American life in the rural South and represent a major part of Zora Neale Hurstons literary legacy.

Author : Joyce Carol Thomas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060006439
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's the Hurry, Fox? written by Joyce Carol Thomas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas has skillfully adapted stories by acclaimed folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston, who traveled the rural South and gathered tales from ordinary folk. Full color.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Midland Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mules and Men written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Midland Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAXnotes. . .- offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature- present material in an interesting, lively fashion- are written by literary experts who currently teach the subjects- are designed to stimulate independent thinking by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions- enhance understanding and enjoyment of the work- cover what one must know about each work- include an overall summary, character lists, explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, biography of the author- each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed and includes study questions and answers- feature illustrations conveying the period and mood of the workEach MAXnotes measures 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" (13.3 cm x 21 cm).

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HQ
ISBN 13 : 9780008434342
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by HQ. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage 'Genius' Alice Walker 'Rigorous, convincing, dazzling' Zadie Smith on Their Eyes Were Watching God In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston - the sole black student at Barnard College, New York - was living in the city, 'desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.' During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's 'lost' Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humour, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston's world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer's voice and her contributions to America's literary traditions.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847399
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell My Horse written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060006315
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skull Talks Back written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dare to cross paths with ... An enchantress who can slip in and out of her skin, A man more evil than the devil, A skull who talks back, A pair of creepy feet that can walk on their own? Spooky, chilling, and fantastical, this collection of six scary tales will send shivers up your spine! The stories in the skull talks back have been selected from Every Tongue Got To Confess, Zora Neale Hurston's third volume of folklore. Through Joyce Carol Thomas's carefully adapted text and Leonard Jenkins's arresting illustrations, the soulful, fanciful imaginations of ordinary folk will reach readers of all ages.

Author : Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307430367
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zora Neale Hurston written by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D. and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, most of which appeared in literary magazines during the author's lifetime, along with previously unpublished works, spans the career of one of the century's foremost African American writers.