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Blacks -- United States -- Folklore.
Blacks -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Africa.
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Blacks -- United States -- Folklore.
Blacks -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Africa.
MARC Display
The
annotated
African
American
folktales
/ edited with a foreword, introduction, and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Call #:
398.208996 A615
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- Folklore.
Blacks -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Africa.
ISBN:
9780871407535 (hc.)
Alternate title:
African
American
folktales
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xcii, 651 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-651).
Contents:
Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar --
AFRICAN
TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : stories, wisdom, and contradiction -- Figuring it out : facing complications with dilemma tales -- Adding enchantment to wisdom : fairy tales work their magic -- Telling tales today : oral narratives from Africa --
African
American
Tales: Defiance and desire : flying Africans and magical instruments -- Fears and phobias : witches, hants, and spooks -- Speech and silence : talking skulls and singing tortoises -- Silence and passive resistance : the tar-baby story -- Kindness and treachery : slipping the trap -- Joel Chandler Harris and the Uncle Remus tales -- Folklore from the Southern Workman and the Journal of
American
Folklore --
Folktales
from The Brownies' Book -- Zora Neale Hurston collects
African
American
folklore -- Lessons in laughter : tales about John and Old Master -- How in the world? : pourquoi tales -- Ballads : heroes, outlaws, and monkey business -- Artists, pro and con : preacher tales -- Folkloric cousins abroad : tales from Caribbean and Latin
American
cultures -- Something borrowed, something blue : fairy tales -- Prefaces to collections and manifestos about collecting
African
American
lore -- Poets and philosophers remember stories : meditations on
African
American
lore -- IMAGE GALLERY. Tale-telling sites : at home and in common spaces -- Tale-telling sites : places of labor -- Illustrated poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Joel Chandler Harris and the Uncle Remus tales.
Summary:
"Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding
African
American
lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, this collection revolutionizes the canon. Following in the tradition of 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), 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. 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, then going 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. This 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, this collection reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for
African
and
American
Research, Harvard University"--Provided by publisher.
Other authors:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Tatar, Maria, 1945-
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