Oct 7, 2008

Mules and Men | Summary

Summary of the Novel
This is essentially a nonfiction account of Zora Hurston’s own trip to Eatonville, Florida, taken in order to collect African-American folktales. Her own adventures in Eatonville are occasionally interrupted by fables and songs collected from the people she meets in her travels. The second section of Mules and Men is a record of her trip to New Orleans to do field study on the practice of hoodoo. Zora records her experience as an apprentice to several hoodoo doctors and as a hoodoo consultant.

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