Mormegil@bookwyrm.social reviewed Mules and men by Zora Neale Hurston
Stepped on a pin
4 stars
"de pin bent And dat's de way de story went."
A beautiful and loving collection of folk tales and hoodoo lore. I'm not really enough of a scholar to tell you whether Hurston is an 'important' writer, but I can tell you that she was full of love, and that she was a damn good one. I will have to revisit some of her fiction. The experience of reading the dialect that she captures, and following the story, feels like reading Shakespeare. I found this beautiful and comforting and insightful, like a good myth.
"de pin bent And dat's de way de story went."
A beautiful and loving collection of folk tales and hoodoo lore. I'm not really enough of a scholar to tell you whether Hurston is an 'important' writer, but I can tell you that she was full of love, and that she was a damn good one. I will have to revisit some of her fiction. The experience of reading the dialect that she captures, and following the story, feels like reading Shakespeare. I found this beautiful and comforting and insightful, like a good myth.