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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States Analog audio cassette - 2001

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston; Reader-Ruby Dee; Reader-Ossie Davis
ISBN: 9780694526451

by Zora Neale Hurston; Read by Ruby Dee; Read by Ossie Davis

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E-Book Extra: Oral Tradition: A Reading Group GuideAn extensive volume of nearly 500 folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith, collected by Zora Neale Hurston on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The New York Times calls these bitter and often hilarious tales “splendidly vivid and true”.Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates African American life in the rural South and represents a major part of Zora Neale Hurston's literary legacy.

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African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston.

In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people -and no two actors better capture this world than Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. They pay tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Afticanized language that flourishes to this day.

Performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

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Title Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
Author Zora Neale Hurston; Read by Ruby Dee; Read by Ossie Davis
Binding Analog Audio Cassette
Edition Unabridged
Volumes 6
Language ENG
Publisher Caedmon, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date December 1, 2001
ISBN 9780694526451 / 0694526452
Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
Dimensions 11.26 x 3.84 x 2.69 in (28.60 x 9.75 x 6.83 cm)
Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Audiobooks (Unabridged)
Dewey Decimal Code 398.208

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