Mule bone : a comedy of Negro life / Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston ; edited with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; and the complete story of the Mule bone controversy.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.
• Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Contributor:

• Bass, George Houston, writer of introduction.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of introduction.
• HarperPerennial Classics (Firm), publisher.
• Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
• Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African Americans--Drama.
• African Americans.

Genre:

• Drama.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xiii, [1], 282, 23, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First HarperPerennial modern classics edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ... : HarperPerennial, 2008.

Contents:

• Another bone of contention : reclaiming our gift of laughter / George Houston Bass
• A tragedy of negro life / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• The bone of contention : the short story / Zora Neale Hurston
• Mule bone : a comedy of negro life : the play / Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston
• The mule bone controversy : Langston Hughes's account from his autobiography
• Robert E. Hemenway's account from his biography of Zora Neal Hurston
• Arnold Rampersad's account from his biography of Langston Hughes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

• 9780061651120
• 0061651125

OCLC:

191930389