Kyrie
The more Zora Neale Hurston I read, the more she becomes a personal hero of mine.
I really respect her work as a folklorist. I'm upset that it's taken me this long to get around to reading more of her work.
The first half of Mules and Men is a written narration of Zora's interactions with the people she was collecting the stories from, as well as the stories themselves. The second half of the book documents Zora's investigation of hoodoo culture in New Orleans. She doesn't go into too much detail, though, and mainly focuses on the various teachers she worked with, and the workings they were asked to perform while she was with them. She would later do a more thorough study of hoodoo in Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, which covers the subject better than this collection.
The more Zora Neale Hurston I read, the more she becomes a personal hero of mine.
I really respect her work as a folklorist. I'm upset that it's taken me this long to get around to reading more of her work.
The first half of Mules and Men is a written narration of Zora's interactions with the people she was collecting the stories from, as well as the stories themselves. The second half of the book documents Zora's investigation of hoodoo culture in New Orleans. She doesn't go into too much detail, though, and mainly focuses on the various teachers she worked with, and the workings they were asked to perform while she was with them. She would later do a more thorough study of hoodoo in Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, which covers the subject better than this collection.