Mules and Men (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Folklore
- Genres: Nonfiction, Short fiction, Folklore
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Blacks, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Doctors, Storytelling, New Orleans, Folklore, Florida, Oral history, Louisiana, Folk medicine
- Locales: South (U.S.)
In writing Mules and Men, Hurston not only found a way to make a crucial bridge between her anthropological and literary ambitions but also created a lasting treasure of stories that captured the authentic voices of southern black storytellers in the late 1920's. The book is divided into two parts. The first part details her collecting of folklore in Florida, the second part in New Orleans. The order in which the tales are related is ostensibly random, simply the order in which people told them to her, but as her biographer Robert Hemenway points out, and as inspection of the...
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