This paper compares Zora Neal Hurston's Mules and Men to James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The author focuses on the emotional views of both authors. This page paper has no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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that Hurston retained her own "southern emotional structure," but Agee always remained the "emotional outsider". BBAtoZsR.doc FROM A to Z: A Touch of the
Rural South (James Agee is compared to Z.N. Hurston) Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November
2000 Introduction Zora Neale Hurston and James Agee present similar external views of the rural south. Yet, Hurston has a more authentic internal or emotional presentation than
Agee. It has been suggested that Hurston retained her own "psychological southern structure," but Agee always remained the emotional outsider. Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston opens her
first collection of African-American folklore, Mules and Men, with a condensed version of the story of her own life. She speaks to us with a certain southern flavor, or
style, and more than just a touch of humor. Hurston returns to her childhood home of Eatonville, Florida, as a "professional ethnographer," not, she says, "so that the home folks
could make admiration over me because I had been up North to college and come back with a diploma and a Chevrolet," but "because I knew that the town was
full of material and that I could get it without hurt, harm or danger" (Mules 2). However folks "dont cotton to" Hurston as easily as she believed they would,
and the tales, that she thought she would collect, are few and far between. Hurstons scholarly investment in the project might be considered debatable, since she identifies her own past
as part of her folklore, while identifying that lore as an event, which shifts according to the telling. In other words we are never quite sure if, for dramatic