6/8/2023 0 Comments Every tongue got to confess![]() ![]() But the writing down from the lips is to insure the correct dialect and wording so that I shall not let myself creep in unconsciously.” (from the Introduction by Carla Kaplan, p. This after it has been told to me off hand until I know it myself. Keep to the exact dialect as closely as I could, having the story teller to tell it to me word for word as I write. “I have tried to be as exact as possible. ![]() She wanted to preserve a language that was unique, pure, and lasting. Travelling from Florida to Alabama to Georgia and Louisiana, Hurston spoke with men and women, young and old, domestics and mine workers, housewives and jailbirds, collecting their tales word for word. In the late 1920s, with the support of Franz Boas of Columbia University, a circle of friends that included members of the Harlem Renaissance, and a wealthy patron named Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston set out to collect the folk tales of the rural south. Hurston’s transformation of the spoken into the written, like a lost letter from yesteryear’s speakers to today’s readers, languished undiscovered for decades. This has certainly been the trajectory of the rich African-American oral tradition. Storytelling is an essential element of many cultures and held dear by communities whose identities have been formed in extremely difficult circumstances. Reading Group Guide, Every Tongue Got to Confess Introduction ![]()
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