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Folktails

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Author : Jan Thornhill
language : en
Publisher: Maple Tree
Release Date : 2006

Folktails written by Jan Thornhill and has been published by Maple Tree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Animals categories.

A collection of animal legends and folktales from around the world.

Clever Gretchen And Other Forgotten Folktales

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Author : Alison Lurie
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-04

Clever Gretchen And Other Forgotten Folktales written by Alison Lurie and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04 with Folklore categories.

Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles and outwit the devil. These stories are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive.

Myths Legends And Folktales Of America

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Author : David Leeming
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-28

Myths Legends And Folktales Of America written by David Leeming and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-28 with Fiction categories.

This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section on dogmas and icons, for instance, Leeming and Page discuss the American melting pot, the notion of manifest destiny, and the imposing historical and literary figure of Henry Adams. And under Heroes and Heroines, they have assembled everyone from "Honest Abe" Lincoln and George "I Cannot Tell a Lie" Washington to Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Martin Luther King, Jr. For every myth or hero rendered here, the editors include an informative yet readable excerpt, often the definitive account of the story in question. Taken as a whole, Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America reveals how waves of immigrants, encountering this strange land for the first time, adapted their religions, beliefs, and folklore to help make sense of a new and astounding place. Covering Johnny Appleseed and Stagolee as well as Paul Bunyan and Moby Dick, this wonderful anthology illuminates our nation's myth-making, enriching our idea of what it means to be American.

East African Folktales

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Author : Vincent Mũli wa Kĩtukũ
language : en
Publisher: august house
Release Date : 1997

East African Folktales written by Vincent Mũli wa Kĩtukũ and has been published by august house this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.

A bilingual collection of 18 folktales or short fables in English and Kikamba from the Kamba Community in Kenya.

West African Folktales

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Author : Richard A. Spears
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1991-10

West African Folktales written by Richard A. Spears and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10 with Fiction categories.

Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.

Creative Stitching Second Edition

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Author : Sue Spargo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-30

Creative Stitching Second Edition written by Sue Spargo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with Appliqué categories.

Full color, highly detailed, step by step instructions for over 70 of Sue Spargo's favorite embroidery stitches.

Small Folk Tails

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Author : A. J. Main
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Small Folk Tails written by A. J. Main and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Children's stories categories.

Folk Tails

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Author : Lisa L. Abbott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

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Small Folk Tails

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Author : A. J. Main
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

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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