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African American Folktales
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Author : Roger Abrahams
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2011-07-27
African American Folktales written by Roger Abrahams and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with Social Science categories.
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
The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Books
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Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-14
The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Books written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Literary Collections categories.
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
Black Folktales
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Author : Julius Lester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Black Folktales written by Julius Lester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with African Americans categories.
African Folktales
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Author : Roger Abrahams
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2011-08-03
African Folktales written by Roger Abrahams and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-03 with Fiction categories.
The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Black Folktales
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Author : Julius Lester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Black Folktales written by Julius Lester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with African Americans categories.
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."
African American Folktales For Young Readers
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Author : Richard Young
language : en
Publisher: august house
Release Date : 1993
African American Folktales For Young Readers written by Richard Young and has been published by august house this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A collection of folktales from the African-American oral tradition, presented as they have been told by professional black storytellers from Rhode Island to Oklahoma.
Black Folktales
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Author : Julius Lester
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1992
Black Folktales written by Julius Lester and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
A modern retelling with contemporary references to 12 African and African American folktales.
Afro American Folktales
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Author : Roger D. Abrahams
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books
Release Date : 1985
Afro American Folktales written by Roger D. Abrahams and has been published by New York : Pantheon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Social Science categories.
The 107 tales demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life in the New World.
The People Could Fly
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Author : Virginia Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The People Could Fly written by Virginia Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with African Americans categories.
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Fairy Tales With A Black Consciousness
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Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-07-03
Fairy Tales With A Black Consciousness written by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-03 with Social Science categories.
The all new essays in this book discuss black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales. The representation of black protagonists in such tales helps to shape children's ideas about themselves and the world beyond--which can ignite a will to read books representing diverse characters. The need for a multicultural text set which includes the multiplicity of cultures within the black diaspora is discussed. The tales referenced in the text are rich in perspective: they are Aesop's fables, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Ananse. Readers will see that stories from black perspectives adhere to the dictates of traditional literary conventions while still steeped in literary traditions traceable to Africa or the diaspora.