Book Review: Read Zora Neale Hurston`s Tell My Horse To Understand Haiti`s Rich History.

I recommend  Zora Neale Hurston’s wonderful anthropological work “Tell My Horse“ to the readers of my blog.

`Tell My Horse“ is available at any public library or if you want to purchase a copy at the bookstore.

“Tell My Horse“ is  a  wonderful work of non fiction the book is  different than Hurston`s novels.

Although Hurston is telling stories about Jamaican and Haitian culture the writing is vivid, lucid, and cogent.

I love this book!

Some critics of Hurston say her novels are inaccessible for readers because she utilizes the African-American southern dialect for

the characters in her novels.

In `Tell My Horse`,` the reader will learn Hurston was also a brilliant social scientist.

The terrible tragedy of Haiti is not just about the earthquake, it is the fact some people do not know about Haiti`s rich history.

Zora Neale Hurston was a feminist writer and a trained anthropologist. In fact, Hurston studied with the famous father of American anthropology Franz Boas. Hurston received a B.A. degree from Barnard College  in anthropology in the year 1927.

In `Tell My Horse`, Ms. Zora Neale Hurston provides a fantastic historical account about sex gender relationships, religion, history, and politics, in Haiti and Jamaica.

For instance, Zora provides readers with a better understanding of voodoo in Haiti and “duppies“ in Jamaica. In Jamaican patois,  “duppies“ are ghosts.

Some people may complain and say Zora`s work was not a true ethnography. However, Hurston presents a vivid, clear, understanding of the Jamaican and Haitian people in the early 20th century.