The Bone of Contention: Mule Bone and the Friendship of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston during the Harlem Renaissance

Authors

Julie A. Mangoff, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow

Graduation Year

2013

Publication Date

4-2013

Abstract

This paper explores the friendship between two great literary minds of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Their close friendship helped to support their artistic lives and was responsible for several collaborations. The last project they worked on was the play Mule Bone. In January of 1931, the play became the wedge that divided the two. This paper will give background information on the lives of both authors and utilize the historical context of the Harlem Renaissance in order to explain how the themes of gender, power, and race helped to cause this break.

Disciplines

History

Recommended Citation

Mangoff, Julie A., "The Bone of Contention: Mule Bone and the Friendship of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston during the Harlem Renaissance" (2013). Honors Projects, History. 50.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/history_honproj/50