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The Mule-Bone
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.95
ISBN13: 9781636521930
Publisher: Black Legacy Press
Published: Dec 18 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Mule-Bone is a landmark theatrical work by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston that captures the humor, conflict, and cultural richness of African American life in the early twentieth-century American South. Centered on a courtroom dispute sparked by a simple mule bone, the play explores themes of justice, community authority, folklore, and social tradition.
Written in vibrant dialect and rooted in Black folk culture, the play blends comedy and social commentary while preserving the rhythms and storytelling traditions of rural Southern communities. The Mule-Bone stands as an important collaboration between two major figures of the Harlem Renaissance and remains a valuable contribution to American drama and cultural history.
This work is well suited for readers interested in African American literature, drama, folklore, and the study of early twentieth-century American theater.
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