Mules and Men

Mules and Men

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Publisher: Midland Books

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Mules and Men

Mules and Men

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0061749877

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Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.


The Mule-Bone

The Mule-Bone

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-12-12

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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This story begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy's affection. An argument breaks out between two men, and Jim picks up a hock bone from a mule and knocks Dave out. Because of that Jim gets arrested and is held for trial in Joe Clarke's barn. When the trial begins the townspeople are divided along religious lines: Jim's Methodist supporters sit on one side of the church, Dave's Baptist supporters on the other. The issue to be decided at the trial is whether or not Jim has committed a crime.


Return to Laughter

Return to Laughter

Author: Elenore Smith Bowen

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1839742895

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This classic of anthropological literature is a dramatic, revealing account of an anthropologist’s first year in the field with a remote African tribe. Simply as a work of ethnographic interest, Return to Laughter provides deep insights into the culture of West Africa—me subtle web of its tribal life and the power of the institution of witchcraft. However, the author’s fictional approach gives the book its lasting appeal. She focuses on the human dimension of anthropology, recounting her personal triumphs and failures and documenting the profound changes she undergoes. As a result, her story becomes at once highly personal and universally recognizable. She has vividly brought to life the classic narrative of an outsider caught up and deeply involved in an utterly alien culture. “The first introspective account ever published of what it’s like to be a field worker among a primitive people.”—Margaret Mead


Mule

Mule

Author: Tony D'Souza

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0547576714

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A novel about the recession generation and a young couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it through.


Mule Killers

Mule Killers

Author: Lydia Peelle

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-07-21

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 0061960705

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"Lydia Peelle has given us a collection of stories so artfully constructed and deeply imagined they read like classics. It marks the beginning of what will surely be a long and beautiful career." —Ann Patchett In Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, Lydia Peelle brings together eight brilliant stories—two of which won Pushcart Prizes and one of which won an O. Henry Prize—that peer straight into the human heart. In startling and original prose, she examines lives derailed by the loss of a vital connection to the land and to the natural world of which they are a part. Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing conveys an almost Faulknerian ache for the pre-modern South, for a landscape and a way of life lost to the ravages of money and technology.


Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend

Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend

Author: Bettye Stroud

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 153622104X

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“This small snapshot of the protest movement pays homage to both the determination of ordinary folk and the power of Dr. King’s words. . . . An intergenerational story filled with heart and soul.” — Kirkus Reviews When Alex spies a mule chomping on greens in a nearby garden, he can’t help but ask about it. “Ol’ Belle?” says Miz Pettway. “She can have all the collards she wants. She’s earned it.” And so begins the tale of an ordinary mule in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, that played a singular part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. When African-Americans in a poor community — inspired by a visit from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — defied local authorities who were trying to stop them from registering to vote, many got around a long, imposed detour on mule-drawn wagons. As Alex looks into the eyes of gentle Belle, he begins to understand a significant time in history in a very personal way.


Moses, Man of the Mountain

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0060919949

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A fictionized biography of Moses as a religious leader and a great voodoo man, told in Negro vernacular.


Man and Horse

Man and Horse

Author: John Egenes

Publisher: Delta Vee

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780692930854

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In 1974 a disenfranchised young man from a broken home set out to do the impossible. With a hundred dollars in his pocket, a beat up cavalry saddle, and a faraway look in his eye, John Egenes saddled his horse Gizmo and started down the trail on an adventure across the North American continent. Their seven month journey took them across 11 states from California to Virginia, ocean to ocean.. As they left the pressing confinement of the city behind them, the pair experienced the isolation and loneliness of the southwestern deserts, the vastness of the prairie, and the great landscapes that make up America. Across hundreds of miles of empty land they slept with coyotes and wild horses under the stars, and in urban areas they camped alone in graveyards and abandoned shacks. Along the way John and Gizmo were transformed from inexperienced horse and rider to veterans of the trail. With his young horse as his spiritual guide John slowly began to comprehend his own place in the world and to find peace within himself. Full of heart and humor, Egenes serves up a tale that's as big as the America he witnessed, an America that no longer exists. It was a journey that could only have been experienced step by step, mile by mile, from the view between a horse's ears.