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The sanctified church / Zora Neale Hurston

Author
Hurston, Zora Neale
Published
Berkeley : Turtle Island, [1981]
Copyright Date
©1981
Physical Description
107 pages ; 24 cm
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BR563.N4H834 BR563.B53H834 1981
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Contents
Father Abraham -- Cures and beliefs -- Mother Catherine -- Uncle Monday -- Daddy Mention -- Characteristics of negro expression -- High John de Conquer -- Spirituals and neo-spirituals -- Conversions and visions -- Shouting -- Sermon -- Sanctified church.
Summary
The Sanctified Church is a collection of Hurston's ground-breaking essays on Afro-American folklore, legend, popular mythology, and, in particular, the unique spiritual character of the Southern Black Christian Church. Along with preserving the customs, music, speech, and humor of rural Black America, The Sanctified Church introduces us to such extraordinary figures as Mother Catherine, matriarchal founder of a highly personal Voodoo Christian sect; Uncle Monday, healer, conjurer, and powerful herb doctor; and High John de Conquer, the trickster/shaman figure of freedom and laughter still honored in parts of rural Black America today. A pioneering ethnographer and folklore scholar, the great Zora Neale Hurston captured the exuberance, vitality and genius of Black culture with a vividness and authority unmatched by any other writer. (Back cover).
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ISBN
0913666440
9780913666449
09136663904
Collection
Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora.
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