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    Every Tongue Got to Confess
    Every Tongue Got to Confess
    Every Tongue Got to Confess
    Audiobook6 hours

    Every Tongue Got to Confess

    Written by Zora Neale Hurston

    Narrated by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

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    About this audiobook

    African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

    Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston.

    In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people -and no two actors better capture this world than Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. They pay tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Afticanized language that flourishes to this day.

    Performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaedmon
    Release dateOct 31, 2005
    ISBN9780060842741
    Every Tongue Got to Confess
    Author

    Zora Neale Hurston

    Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountains, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Every Tongue Got to Confess, 2001); a work of anthropological research, (Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); an international bestselling nonfiction work (Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” 2018); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1928. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida.

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    • 4/5
      While I like this, this is more a collection of short interviews Zora did while doing anthropology work. Most of these stories aren't very long and there are a handful of one-liners. All of this is in dialect. More for people who read Zora and admire her contributions to anthropology and folklore.
    • 4/5
      Brief and utterly engrossing, I recommend these stories, though I suspect more could be got from them if I paid closer attention. The repetitions worked both for and against. Satisfied but I somehow wanted more...
    • 4/5
      This was a series of folktales and folk stories, recorded just as told to ZNH, complete with the names of the people who told the stories. The book was divided by subject matter--God tales, Devil tales, Tall tales, etc., plus a fairly large miscellaneous section.

      They were great! As usual w/ZNH's stuff, you get a real sense of cadence and speech patterns, which I love. The mood of the stories was all over the place; lots of funny ones, some raunchy ones, some sharp ones, some sad ones. I didn't read the book cover to cover, but I dipped in and read a fair number of them--mainly the shorter ones.