Mules and Men

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

  • African American Language (AAL)

  • African American spirituality, Southern Black American folktales, participatory anthropology, ethnography, early 20th century daily life in Black Southern communities, nature and animals

  • Young Adult +

Mules and Men is the first great collection of Black America’s folk world. In the 1930’s, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of enslavement, which she remembered hearing as a child. In her quest, she found herself and her history throughout these highly metaphorical folk-tales, “big old lies,” and the lyrical language of song. With this collection, Zora Neale Hurston has come to reveal’and preserve’a beautiful and important part of American culture.