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Moses, Man of the Mountain

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Originally published
  
1939

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Author
  
Zora Neale Hurston

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Genres
  
Fiction, Biography, Children's literature

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Works by Zora Neale Hurston, Fiction books

Moses, Man of the Mountain is a 1939 novel by African American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. The novel rewrites the story of the Book of Exodus of Moses and the Israelites from an Afro-American perspective. The novel applies a number of different motifs and themes commonly addressed in African American culture, subverting the Moses story.

Writing in the context of Hitler's rise to power, critic Mark Christian Thompson describes the novel as critiquing the authoritarian tactics of states, and becomes a metaphor critiquing the premises of National Socialism.

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