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Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780844619903
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Negro Folktales written by Richard M. Dorson and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871407566
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 030780318X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book African American Folktales written by Roger Abrahams and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library
Author : John Mason Brewer
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 9780812962352
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Negro Folklore written by John Mason Brewer and published by Crown. This book was released on 1974-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486805808
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Negro Folktales written by Richard M. Dorson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preacher battles a bear, a mother returns from the dead, and a clever servant conducts a Big Feet Contest in this rich anthology of African-American folklore. Scores of humorous and harrowing stories, collected during the mid-twentieth century, tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints. The first part of the book provides a setting for the fables, in which folklorist Richard M. Dorson discusses their origins and the artistry of storytellers. The second part consists of the tales, which include the adventures of Old Marster and John, supernatural episodes, and comical and satirical anecdotes as well as more realistic accounts of racial injustice. Recounted in the actual words of the narrators, the folktales abound in bold language, memorable imagery, and bittersweet humor that reflect the essence of African-American storytelling traditions.
Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Negro Folktales written by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications. This book was released on 1967 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a superb collection from the folktale repertoire of Negro Americans. It includes not only the well-known stories of talking animals, but also the cycle concerning Old Master and his clever slave John, and ranges from supernatural accounts of specters and bogies, through comical and satirical anecdotes, to the more realistic reports of racial injustice.
Author : Virginia Hamilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590473705
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Her Stories written by Virginia Hamilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060934545
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Every Tongue Got to Confess written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates African American life in the rural South and represents a major part of Zora Neale Hurston's literary legacy.
Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Negro Folktales written by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julius Lester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Folktales written by Julius Lester and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve tales of African and Afro-American origin include "How God Made the Butterflies," "The Girl With the Large Eyes," "Stagolee," and "People Who Could Fly."
