EPISODE · Oct 31, 2005 · 6H 45M
Every Tongue Got to Confess -- Zora Neale Hurston
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Tongue Got to Confess Author: Zora Neale Hurston Narrator: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 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
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