Story in Harlem Slang Her extraordinary belief in the

Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood

The meat at the werewolf’s table is a dish to relish

Erin Wiersma

legacy and love of making trouble

Ruby Tandoh

Story in Harlem Slang Her extraordinary belief in theIn Story in Harlem Slangthe only piece of fiction she published during her brief period in the limelight Zora Neale Hurston uses her career as a folklorist to celebrate the communitys linguistic expression. For her non Harlem (and mostly white) audience, she included an appendix at the end of the story, reprinted as the last three pages of the selection below. In an anthology published in 1990, Alan Dundes remarks on how a good many of the slang items