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Also known as: “Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts”
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Mule Bone, play about African American rural life written in 1931 by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Drawing on Southern black oral tradition and folklore, the play features such customs as “mule-talking,” a type of verbal one-upmanship. (Hurston, an anthropologist as well as a writer, had collected examples of mule-talking in black communities.) The play remained unfinished and unproduced during the authors’ lifetimes; it was published in 1990.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.