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Every Tongue Got to Confess

Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States

Every Tongue Got to Confess( )
Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
ISBN:978-0-06-093454-5
Publication Date:Oct 2002
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Amistad
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.31 x 8 x 0.72 Inches
Book Weight:0.58 Pounds
Author Biography
Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance.

Her works included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published.

She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted.

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