Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston ; preface by Franz Boas ; with a new foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.

Author
Hurston, Zora Neale [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st Perennial Library ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Harper Perennial, 1990.
Description
xxiii, 309, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Contained in
Notes
  • Originally published: J.B. Lippincott, c1935.
  • A collection of black American Folklore and Hoodoo.
  • Derrida copy Inscribed copy. Dealer note: Ex-dono : "To Jacques Derrida in respect & trust [Nalum D. Charles (???illisible)] 4/25/91". Check-in observation: Dog-eared page 257.
  • Derrida copy Stored in box B-000292. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, Studio Series. Studio. Wall 2.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-302).
Contents
  • John and the frog
  • Witness of the Johnstown Flood in heaven
  • How the brother was called to preach
  • How the preacher made them bow down
  • Pa Henry's prayer
  • How the church came to be split up
  • Why negroes are black
  • Why women always take advantage of men
  • Sue, Sal and that pretty Johnson gal
  • The Quickest trick
  • How to write a letter
  • A Fast horse
  • "Ah'll beatcher makin' money"
  • The "Workinist pill you ever seen "
  • How Jack beat the devil
  • "John Henry"
  • Ole Massa and John who wanted to go to heaven
  • Massa and the bear
  • Why the sister in black works the hardest
  • "De reason niggers is working so hard"
  • Deer hunting story
  • Big talk
  • The First colored man in Massa's house
  • What smelled worse
  • The Fortune teller
  • How negroes got their freedom
  • The Turtle watch.
  • "From pine to pine Mr. Pinkney"
  • "God an' de devil in de cemetery"
  • Praying for rain
  • Kill the white folks
  • "Member youse a nigger"
  • "You think I'm gointer pay you but I ain't
  • Why the mocking bird is away on Friday
  • Man and the catfish
  • How the snake got poison
  • How the woodpecker nearly drowned the whole world
  • How the possum lost the hair off his tail
  • How the 'gator got his mouth
  • How Brer 'Gator got his tongue worn out
  • How the 'gator got black
  • How Brer dog lost his beautiful voice
  • What the rabbit learned
  • The goat that flagged a train
  • Shooting up hill
  • Tall hunting story
  • The Hawk and the buzzard
  • Why they always use rawhide on a mule
  • Why we have gophers
  • How god made butterflies
  • How the cat got nine lives
  • The Son who went to college
  • Why the waves have whitecaps.
In
Derrida copy folder 13 2.2.3.15 (M)
ISBN
0060916486 :
LCCN
89045672
OCLC
21160588
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