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BarracoonISBN 0060167289 (0-06-016728-9)
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Collected Essaysby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060167319 (0-06-016731-9)
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Complete Essaysby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060167300 (0-06-016730-0)
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Complete Playsby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060167270 (0-06-016727-0)
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Dust Tracks on a Roadby Zora Neale Hurston , Maya AngelouISBN 0060854081 (0-06-085408-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust Tracks on a Road'Book summary:Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book. The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literatures most compelling and influential authors. Hurstons powerful novels of the Southincluding Jonahs Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching Godcontinue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942, Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurstons personal story, told in her own words. The Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe edition includes an all-new forward by Maya Angelou, an extended biography by Valerie Boyd, and a special P.S. section featuring the contemporary reviews that greeted the books original publication.
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Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf Statesby Zora Neale Hurston , Carla Kaplan, John Edgar WidemanISBN 0060188936 (0-06-018893-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States'Book summary:"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.
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The Hurston Readerby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060167297 (0-06-016729-7)
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Lies And Other Tall Talesby Christopher Myers, Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060006560 (0-06-000656-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies And Other Tall Tales'Book summary:What's the shortest man you ever seen?
I seen a man so short, he had to get up on a box to look over a grain of sand.
And the fastest?
I seen a man run so hard that he lost his feets.
Back in the day, there were liars who could lie so good, you didn't even want to know the truth. And we have Zora Neale Hurston to thank for collecting their stories. In lies, Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Christopher Myers has created expressive collages that are as bold and wild as the whoppers Hurston encountered on her travels in the Gulf States. Here's a visual treat that will tickle your funny bone.
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Lies And Other Tall Talesby Zora Neale Hurston , Christopher Myers, Joyce Carol ThomasISBN 0060006552 (0-06-000655-2)
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Lifeby Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston , Henry Louis Gates, George Houston BassISBN 0060553014 (0-06-055301-4)
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060916486 (0-06-091648-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mules and Men'Book summary:Set intimately within the social context of black life, this is a collection of stories, "big old lies," songs, voodoo customs and superstitions passed down through oral tradition. [via]
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The Six Foolsby Zora Neale Hurston , Ann Tanksley, Joyce Carol ThomasISBN 0060006463 (0-06-000646-3)
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Zora Neale Hurston
Who's the biggest fool?
Is it the girl who floods her basement with cider, the man who jumps into his pants, the farmer who feeds his cow on the roof, or the woman who tries to fill her wheelbarrow with sunshine?
Based on a story collected by Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in 1930s Gulf States, The Six Fools is an outrageously funny tale about a dashing young man who finds foolish folks aplenty and true love!
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The Skull Talks Back and Other Haunted Talesby Zora Neale Hurston , Joyce Carol Thomas, Leonard JenkinsISBN 0060006315 (0-06-000631-5)
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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.
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston , Gates, Henry Louis (AFT), Edwidge DanticatISBN 0060838671 (0-06-083867-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Three Witchesby Zora Neale Hurston , Faith Ringgold, Joyce Carol ThomasISBN 0060006498 (0-06-000649-8)
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The Three Witches was first published in every tongue got to confess, the third volume of folklore collected by Zora Neale Hurston while traveling in the Gulf States in the 1930s. It has been adapted for young people by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Thomas. The vibrant paintings have been masterfully executed by internationally celebrated artist Faith Ringgold.
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What's the Hurry, Foxby Zora Neale Hurston , Joyce Carol Thomas, Bryan CollierISBN 0060006439 (0-06-000643-9)
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What's the Hurry, Fox?: And Other Animal Storiesby Zora Neale Hurston , Joyce Carol Thomas, Bryan CollierISBN 0060006447 (0-06-000644-7)
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