Angels Laundromat
Subtitle: short stories
By: by Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Turtle Island for the Netzahaulcoyotl Historical Society
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Description: The Sanctified Church is a collection of Hurston's ground-breaking essays on Afro-American folklore, legend, popular mythology, and, in particular, the unique spiritual character of the Soouthern Black Christian Church. Along with preserving the customs, music, speech, and humor of rural Black America, The Sanctified Church introduces us to such extraordinary figures as Mother Catherine, matriarchal founder of a highly personal Voodoo Christian sect; Uncle Monday, healer, conjurer, and powerful herb doctor; and High John de Conquer, the trickster/shaman figure of freedom and laughter still honored in parts of rural Black America today. A pioneering ethnographer and floklore scholar, the great Zora Neale Hurston captured the exuberance, vitality and genius of Black culture with a vividness and authority unmatched by any other writer. (Back cover).
Table of contents: title: The musical vanity boxes; title: Mama and Dad; title: El Tim; title: A foggy day; title: Angel's Laundromat; title: Maggie May