Mule Bone - A Comedy of Negro Life

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.

About the author

Zora Neale Hurston wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountains; and Seraph on the Suwanee) and was still working on her fifth novel, The Life of Herod the Great, when she died; three books of folklore (Mules and Men and the posthumously published Go Gator and Muddy the Water and Every Tongue Got to Confess); a work of anthropological research (Tell My Horse); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road); an international bestselling ethnographic work (Barracoon); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, and lived her last years in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ranks as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. A landmark figure in the Harlem Renaissance, his work profoundly captures and celebrates the trials and triumphs of his exquisitly drawn characters. In addition to his poetry, he was also the author of the novels Not Without Laughter and Something in Common, the play Mulatto, and two volumes of autobiography.

Product details

• Authors: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale/ Hughes Hurston
• Publisher: Amistad
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.12.2008
• EAN: 9780061651120
• ISBN: 978-0-06-165112-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Anthologies: general, Plays, Playscripts, FICTION: Literary, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, FICTION: Humorous / Black Humor, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: CLASSIC LITERATURE, LITERATURE: DRAMA, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / African American & Black, DRAMA: American / African American & Black, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/DRAMA, African American Studies / Classic Literature, Literature / Women's Literature, Literature / African American, Literature / Drama, Women's Literature / Literature/Drama