- Fiction, Folklore, Literature, Vodou
Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery.
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Warm, contemplative, nostalgic and earnest.
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- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Zora Neale Hurston
- First published
- January 1, 2008
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO, LLC, Harper & Row, J.B. Lippincott Co.
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061660313
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“As I crossed the Maitland-Eatonville township line I could see a group on the store porch.”
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)
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