Carla Kaplan

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (2002)

Every one of the folk tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston for this volume is interesting and thought-provoking. A number of them are humorous. A surprising number of them are sad. All of them evoke truths about human existence, in the manner of folk tales throughout the world, even as they e...