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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812
EAN: 9780061651120
ISBN: 0061651125
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: December 02, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance—Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
In 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a lively, insightful, often wildly farcical look inside a rural Southern black community—the three-act play Mule Bone. In this hilarious story, Jim and Dave are a struggling song-and-dance team, and when a woman comes between them, chaos ensues in their tiny Florida hometown. This extraordinary theatrical work broke new ground while triggering a bitter controversy between the collaborators that kept it out of the public eye for sixty years.
This edition of the rarely seen stage classic features Hurston's original short story, "The Bone of Contention," as well as the complete recounting of the acrimonious literary dispute that prevented Mule Bone from being produced or published until decades after the authors' deaths.
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Aside from the controversy of the dispute between Hughes and Hurston, I deal with the story and play itself.
The play "Mule Bone" is based on "The Bone of Contention," a 1930 short story by the Queen of Black Folklore (ZNH) based on a folktale from her hometown of Eatonville Fla. about two men who fight over a turkey. One uses a Mule bone to assault the other, and the town's Black Baptists and Methodists split over the issue as Mayor Joe Clarke tries to settle the matter.
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We are fortunate that this play was finally produced well over 50 years after it was written. Hurston and Hughes wrote an interesting play that needs a bit of fine tuning in order to be a truly great play. If they had been able to stage this production in the 1930s, the play could have really changed the ways that African-American culture is expressed through musical comedy. One of their great contributions is their use of actual stories and traditional songs from African-American folklore in ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 812
EAN: 9780061651120
ISBN: 0061651125
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: December 02, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics