Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States - Hardcover

Hurston, Zora Neale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060188936 ISBN 13: 9780060188931

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001

Synopsis

Recently discovered, this first new book to be published by the master of African-American folklore in more than fifty years features an abundance of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, that represent a large part of the author's literary legacy and detail African-American life in the rural South. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: "Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South."

Synopsis:

A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060188936
• ISBN 13: 9780060188931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Kaplan Carla