Mules and Men

Name: Mules and Men
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780060886707

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrator: Ruby Dee

Abridged: 2 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/31/2005

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Short Stories

Synopsis

""Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read."" --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ""native village"" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, 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.Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, anthropologist and playwright whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage are unparalleled. She is also the author of Tell My Horse, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Mule Bone. Ruby Dee, a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame, starred on Broadway in the original productions of A Raisin in the Sun and Purlie Victorious, and was featured in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. She is also an award-winning author and the producer of numerous television dramas.

About Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountains; and Seraph on the Suwanee) and was still working on her fifth novel, The Life of Herod the Great, when she died; three books of folklore (Mules and Men and the posthumously published Go Gator and Muddy the Water and Every Tongue Got to Confess); a work of anthropological research (Tell My Horse); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road); an international bestselling ethnographic work (Barracoon); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, and lived her last years in Fort Pierce, Florida.

About Ruby Dee

Not only is Ruby Dee one of the most respected African-American actors of her day, she was also an important part of the civil rights movement. She is probably best known for her role in A Raisin in the Sun, which she performed on both the stage and the screen.Dee has also written plays, fiction, and a column in New York's Amsterdam News.Born in Cleveland, she worked initially with the American Negro Theater in Harlem, where she grew up. She is married to the actor and author Ossie Davis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on April 16, 2017

This is a short story collection from the ingenious author Zora Neale Hurston. I would suggest reading Their Eyes Were Watching God and if you enjoy the style, dive deeply and fearlessly into her universe with Mules and Men.......more

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on February 19, 2023

This wasn't the Zora Neale Hurston book that I planned to start with, but I'm glad I did. It was a perfect listen and it really makes me want to listen to her other books on audio too. But I already have Their Eyes Were Watching God translated to my language so I'll probably listen to it in English......more

Goodreads review by Raymond on June 28, 2023

"Folklore, Hurston said, is the art people create before they find out there is such a thing as art." -Robert E. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography Over a span of five years from the late 1920s to early 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was writing a book about Black folklore and was struggli......more

Goodreads review by Deb on October 14, 2012

First off, I didn't read this book but listened to it on an audiobook version. This is a collection of black American folk lore. It is a a group of oral stories that were passed on to and written down by author Zora Neale Hurston (known for Their Eyes Were Watching God). Some of these stories were t......more

Goodreads review by robin on February 13, 2025

Hurston's Mules And Men I read Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes are Watching God" and wanted to read more. Hurston (1891 -- 1960) had studied anthropology at Barnard with one of the founders of modern anthropology, Franz Boas. With Boas' encouragement and funding from a private source, Hurston......more