Part One: Folk Tales

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Part One: Folk Tales is the opening section of Zora Neale Hurston’s book *Mules and Men*, presenting a collection of African American folk stories she gathered during her anthropological fieldwork.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book section
literary work
author Zora Neale Hurston
basedOn Hurston's anthropological fieldwork
collectionOf African American folk tales
contains dialogue in African American Vernacular English
frame narrative featuring Zora Neale Hurston as a character
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
fieldOfStudy anthropology
folklore studies
focusesOn African American oral tradition
Southern United States communities
followedBy Part Two: Hoodoo
genre anthropological literature
folklore
hasPart individual folk tales
interludes of social interaction among tellers
includedIn African American literature
surface form: African American literature canon
language English
medium print
narrativeStyle first-person
partOf Mules and Men
precededBy front matter of Mules and Men
publicationYear 1935
publisher J. B. Lippincott & Co.
surface form: J. B. Lippincott Company
setting Eatonville, Florida, United States
surface form: Eatonville, Florida

other Southern Black communities
subject Black cultural expression
community storytelling practices
humor in folk narratives
trickster figures in folklore

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