Description

Mules and Men is just a treasury of black Americais tradition as gathered with a well-known anthropologist and storyteller who was raised reading the sermons and songs, words and tall-tales which have shaped an oral history of the South because the period of captivity. Time for her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to collect content, Zora Neale Hurston evokes "an entertaining evening with a touch of anything interpersonal combined with the storytelling." Established thoroughly within the cultural framework of black life, the tales, "large old lies," tunes, Vodou traditions, and superstitions documented in these pages seize the creativity and restore to life the laughter and intelligence that's the initial history of African-Americans.