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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Overview

As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Her works included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted. 030

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed is an important American poet, novelist, playwright, and song writer who has taught at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the University of California-Berkeley. He is author of Japanese by Spring, The Terrible Twos, and Writin' Is Fightin: Thirty-seven Years of Boxing on Paper. He lives in Oakland, California.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    HarperCollins

  • Publish Date

    January 21, 1990 

  • Print ISBN

    0060916494

  • eBook ISBN

    9780061847394

  • Imprint

    HarperCollins

  • Filesize

    2.56 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    336

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