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Every Tongue Got to Confess
Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf StatesBy Zora Neale HurstonNarrated by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
Length6h 46m
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
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length6 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byRuby Dee, Ossie Davis
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 31, 2005
LanguageEnglish
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