The Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston

The Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston

£800.00

A retelling of the story of Moses and the Book of Exodus from a Black American perspective The Man of the Mountain (published first in the United States as Moses, Man of the Mountain) by writer, anthropologist, and filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston. A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston documented Black inequality in American South at the turn of the 20th century, as well as more contemporary African-American experiences.

Hurston was an expert in African American and Caribbean folklore and voodoo, and it informed her ethnographic research at Barnard and Columbia. Born in Alabama and later moving to Eatonville, Florida, she died in poverty and was buried in an unmarked grave, the vicinity of which was discovered by Alice Walker, who had also rejuventated interest in her genius with the publication of In Search of Zora Neale Hurston in Ms. Magazine in 1975.

This is the first British edition of her novel, published two years after its American debut. A wonderful and bright copy, as well as the publisher’s file copy. Interesting to note that the cover did not represent the idea of a Black Moses, which is what Hurston provocatively determined to do.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1941. First UK edition, publisher’s file copy. 319 pages. 19 x 13 x 3. Price-clipped. Some tears and chipping to dust jacket edges.

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