American Negro Folktales
Author | : Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | : Peter Smith Publisher |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780844619903 |
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Author | : Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | : Peter Smith Publisher |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780844619903 |
Author | : Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1437 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0871407566 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0486805808 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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. |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590473705 |
Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
Author | : Julius Lester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roger Abrahams |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 030780318X |
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 | : Daryl Cumber Dance |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253202659 |
" . . . 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.
Author | : Ann Malaspina |
Publisher | : Child's World |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781623236175 |
African American slaves in the old South dream of escape from their hardships by flying away.