The Mule Bone

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667631810
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mule-Bone written by Langston Hughes and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a mule bone becomes a bone of contention between two best friends, guitar player Jim and dancer Dave, their small Southern town becomes embroiled in the conflict. Egged on by flirtatious newcomer Daisy, matters escalate until the harmony of Eatonville is overturned and the longtime pals end up in court. Will justice or friendship prevail in this humorous Harlem Renaissance classic? ""The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts"" by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston is a play written by two prominent African American authors during the 1930s. ""The Mule-Bone"" explores themes of love, rivalry, and community life in a Southern town. It's known for its rich dialogue and humor, offering a snapshot of African American culture during the early part of the 20th century."

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mule-Bone written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mule-Bone written by Langston Hughes and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-07-19T19:34:05Z with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collaboration between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, The Mule-Bone is a three-act comedy depicting the romantic rivalry between two lifelong friends, Jim Weston and Dave Carter, as they both try to woo the same woman, Daisy Taylor. Set in the town of Eatonville, Florida (Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown and the setting of her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God), the play humorously explores the interpersonal and religious conflicts in an early 20th-century African-American community while incorporating themes from folklore. Hughes and Hurston’s collaboration on The Mule-Bone was a troubled one, since it ended in an authorship dispute between the two, and the play was never properly finished. Hughes even noted on his personal copy, “This play was never done because the authors fell out.” The play was not produced until 1991, over sixty years after it was written, when it was performed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to lukewarm reviews. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the manuscript deposited by Zora Neale Hurston with the United States Copyright Office in 1931, the only version of The Mule-Bone known to be out of copyright. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Yuval Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243923
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal written by Yuval Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061749877
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mules and Men written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Midland Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mules and Men written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Midland Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAXnotes. . .- offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature- present material in an interesting, lively fashion- are written by literary experts who currently teach the subjects- are designed to stimulate independent thinking by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions- enhance understanding and enjoyment of the work- cover what one must know about each work- include an overall summary, character lists, explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, biography of the author- each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed and includes study questions and answers- feature illustrations conveying the period and mood of the workEach MAXnotes measures 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" (13.3 cm x 21 cm).

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410353281
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Zora Neale Hurston/Langston Hughes's "Mule Bone" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Zora Neale Hurston/Langston Hughes's "Mule Bone," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605972169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mule-Bone written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a three-act comedy from the Harlem Renaissance. The setting is Florida. The main characters are two song and dance men and Daisy. Here is a classic love triangle. Jealously causes Jim to hit Dave with a mule bone. The town is split over this incident. The Methodists want Jim pardoned. The Baptists want him banished.

Author : Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307430367
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zora Neale Hurston written by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D. and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

Author : Mary E. Lyons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0020444451
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sorrow's Kitchen written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-04-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and work of the prolific black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance.