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THE LYRICBOOK COLLECTION The Historic Lyric

Novelist and folklorist

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston brought training in anthropology to her fiction and folklore. Eatonville, Florida, and the people she interviewed across the South help situate her attention to speech and oral tradition.

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Books in the collection

Oral history

Barracoon

Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston records Cudjo Lewis’s account of captivity, the Atlantic crossing, and life in Africatown.

Folklore

Mules and Men

Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston collects folktales and practices from Florida and New Orleans, listening to the people who keep them alive.

Fiction

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Janie Crawford tells the story of three marriages and the hard-won authority to describe her own life.

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