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Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Go gator and muddy the water : writings / by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers' Project ; edited and with a biographical essay by Pamela Bordelon.

New York : Norton, [1999]

©1999

xvi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Stories on the manners and mores of African-Americans in 1930s Florida. They were written when the author was employed by the federal government to transcribe the oral history and to collect data on the customs of black people. At the time, few of her stories made it into print.

Hurston, Zora Neale -- Knowledge and learning.

Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida.

African Americans -- Florida -- Folklore.

African Americans -- Florida.

Tales -- Florida.

Florida -- In literature.

Folk tales.

Bordelon, Pamela.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.

Zora Neale Hurston: A Biographical Essay -- Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas -- Go Gator and Muddy the Water -- Other Negro Folklore Influences -- The Sanctified Church -- New Children's Games -- Negro Mythical Places. Diddy-Wah-Diddy. Zor. Beluthahatchee. Heaven. West Hell -- Other Florida Guidebook Folktales. Jack and the Beanstalk. How the Florida Land Turtle Got Its Name. Uncle Monday. Roy Makes a Car -- Two Towns. Eatonville When You Look at It. Goldsborough -- Turpentine -- The Citrus Industry -- Art and Such -- The Ocoee Riot -- The Fire Dance -- The Jacksonville Recordings.

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