Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folktales from the Gulf States
by Zora Neale Hurston; Carla Kaplan (Editor), John Edgar Wideman (Introduction)
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 0-06-018893-6

In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Zora Neale Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people and pays tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Africanized language that flourishes to this day.