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MULE BONE. Famed among scholars of black literature as an intriguing might- have-been, this 1930 collaboration between Harlem poet Langston Hughes and fiction writer Zora Neale Hurston needed 61 years, and further tinkering, to make it to Broadway. The result, a fable set in a small Florida town, is vibrantly acted and full of charm, its dialectal richness enhanced by twangy Taj Mahal songs...
...secret that women like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston write from a Black woman's perspective, but can't something similar be said of Shakespeare or Chaucer? Didn't they too write from the perspective of who they were, white English men? If so then why is reading their work mandatory while reading the works of Black American women authors only elective...
...essay on Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography, Alice Walker writes of the disillusionment she faced in reading the "false-sounding" memoirs of her idol's life...
Writes Walker, "For me, the most unfortunate thing Zora ever wrote is her autobiography. After the first several chapters, it rings false. But this unctuousness, so out of character for Zora, is also a result of dependency, a sign of her powerlessness...
...recognize them now, how can we leave Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. DuBois, Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir or Zora Neale Hurston off of our lists of contributors to Western civilization...