Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro folk-tales from the Gulf States / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contributor:

Kaplan, Carla, editor, writer of introduction.

Wideman, John Edgar, writer of foreword.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Folklore.

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxxiv, 279 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001.

Summary:

The most extensive volume of African-American folklore that Hurston left behind, this collection of nearly 500 folktales gathered in the late 1920s represents a major part of her literary legacy.

Contents:

God Tales

Preacher Tales

Devil Tales

Witch and Hant Tales

Heaven Tales

John and Massa Tales

Tall Tales

Neatest Trick Tales

Mistaken Identity Tales

Fool Tales

Woman Tales

School Tales

Miscellaneous Tales

Talking Animal Tales.

Notes:

"Designed by Elliott Beard."

"Jacket Design © 2001 by Chin-Yee Lai. Jacket painting by Clementine Hunter ..."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket with cutouts retained.

ISBN:

0060188936 :

OCLC:

46683857