Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States by Carla Kaplan, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States

Carla Kaplan, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston

320 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

Description

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 narrati...

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Moods

inspiring 100%
reflective 100%
adventurous 66%
emotional 66%
informative 66%
challenging 33%
dark 33%
funny 33%
hopeful 33%
lighthearted 33%
tense 33%

Pace

slow 75%
fast 25%

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