American Negro Folktales
Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Published: 1984-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780844619903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780844619903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 1022
ISBN-13: 0871407566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0486796809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rich anthology of African-American folklore offers scores of humorous and harrowing stories. Collected during the mid-20th century, the tales tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints.
Author: Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780590473705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
Author: Julius Lester
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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."
Author: Ann Malaspina
Publisher: Child's World
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781623236175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →African American slaves in the old South dream of escape from their hardships by flying away.
Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0486114287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compiled by the "Father of Black History," these fables unfold amid a magical realm of tricksters and fairies. Recounted in simple language, they will enchant readers and listeners of all ages. Over 60 illustrations.
Author: Daryl Cumber Dance
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780253202659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" . . . a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty. . . . cogent introduction[s] . . . confirm the central point of the tales: a search for cultural identity and freedom. First-rate." —Library Journal " . . . deserves a place alongside the classic collection of Negro tales, Mules and Men. Folktales are the stories people tell, and Shuckin' and Jivin' presents a splendid representative sheaf of the stories black Americans of all social classes tell today . . . . Professional folklorists will applaud Dance's candor and scholarly rigor." —Richard M. Dorson An exciting new collection of Black American folklore, running the gamut from anecdotes concerning life among the slaves to obviously contemporary jokes. In their frank expression of racial attitudes and unexpurgated wit, these tales represent a radical departure from earlier collections.