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Mule bone : a comedy of Negro life / Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston ; edited with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

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HarperPerennial, 2008.

Blacks -- Southern States -- Drama.

American drama -- Black authors.

American drama -- 20th century.

9780061651120 (pbk.)

0061651125 (pbk.)

1st HarperPerennial modern classics ed.

xiii, 282, 23 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Play written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes in 1931.

First Harper Perennial edition published in 1991.

"The complete story of the Mule bone controversy"--Cover.

Another bone of contention : reclaiming our gift of laughter / George Houston Bass -- A tragedy of negro life / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The bone of contention : the short story / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mule bone : a comedy of negro life : the play / Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston -- The mule bone controversy : Langston Hughes's account from his autobiography -- Robert E. Hemenway's account from his biography of Zora Neal Hurston -- Arnold Rampersad's account from his biography of Langston Hughes.

"The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance -- Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. In 1930, the two authors joined forces to create a lively, insightful, often wildly farcical look inside a rural Southern black community -- the three-act play Mule Bone. In this hilarious story, Jim and Dave are a struggling song-and-dance team, and when a woman comes between them, chaos ensues in their tiny Florida hometown. This extraordinary theatrical work broke new ground while triggering a bitter controversy between the collaborators that kept it out of the public eye for sixty years. This edition of the rarely seen stage classic features Hurston's original short story, "The Bone of Contention," as well as the complete recounting of the acrimonious literary dispute that prevented Mule Bone from being produced or published until decades after the authors' deaths. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a novelist, folklorist and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage remain unparalleled. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a poet, novelist, lecturer and playwright."--Provided by publisher.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Bass, George Houston.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

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