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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Crown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001890311
Highlights the diverse oral traditions of the African American cultures of the New World.
Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756783658
In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, esteemed novelist and folklorist Harold Courlander brings together another extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles, and songs, this time from the numerous black cultures of the New World. This remarkable exploration, which covers the unwritten traditions and literature of the Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, the areas of Central and South America inhabited by people of African descent, and the black communities of the United States, brings to light amazing tales of scoundrels, heroes, rollicking adventures, and friendship, descriptions of cult life around which many traditions and beliefs flowed, insight into the social scene in places where black and white ideas intermingled and became Afro-American, and much more. With a focus on the interconnectedness of cultural inheritances throughout the Afro-American region as well as the local divergences, A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore eloquently demonstrates the powerful cultural influence of Africa on this side of the Atlantic. Book jacket.
Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628467550
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. Shirley Moody-Turner analyzes this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants—rather than passive observers—in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role have representations of black folklore played in constructing racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions? Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light and context, taking figures we thought we knew—such as Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history.
Author : Donald J. Waters
Publisher : University Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106006674037
Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307803184
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 : John F. Szwad,Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835752453
Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610699303
African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day. This encyclopedia provides accessible entries on key elements of this long history, including folklore originally derived from African cultures that have survived here and those that originated in the United States. Inspired by the author's passion for African American culture and vernacular traditions, African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students thoroughly addresses key elements and motifs in black American folklore-especially those that have influenced American culture. With its alphabetically organized entries that cover a wide range of subjects from the word "conjure" to the dance style of "twerking," this book provides readers with a deeper comprehension of American culture through a greater understanding of the contributions of African American culture and black folk traditions. This book will be useful to general readers as well as students or researchers whose interests include African American culture and folklore or American culture. It offers insight into the histories of African American folklore motifs, their importance within African American groups, and their relevance to the evolution of American culture. The work also provides original materials, such as excepts from folktales and folksongs, and a comprehensive compilation of sources for further research that includes bibliographical citations as well as lists of websites and cultural centers.
Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : Marlowe & Company
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1569245363
A wide and varied selection of myths from various African tribes south of the Sahara.
Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000103003814
Contains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.
Author : John F. Szwed,Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:49015002192475
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : African Americans
ISBN : IND:39000002996655
Author : Linda Watts
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781646930005
Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of life. Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to this popular subject. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the needs of multiple audiences, including high school, college, and public libraries, archive and museum collections, storytellers, and independent researchers. Its content and organization correspond to the ways educators integrate folklore within literacy and wider learning objectives for language arts and cultural studies at the secondary level. This well-rounded resource connects United States folk forms with their cultural origin, historical context, and social function. Appendixes include a bibliography, a category index, and a discussion of starting points for researching American folklore. References and bibliographic material throughout the text highlight recently published and commonly available materials for further study. Coverage includes: Folk heroes and legendary figures, including Paul Bunyan and Yankee Doodle Fables, fairy tales, and myths often featured in American folklore, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea" American authors who have added to or modified folklore traditions, including Washington Irving Historical events that gave rise to folklore, including the civil rights movement and the Revolutionary War Terms in folklore studies, such as fieldwork and the folklife movement Holidays and observances, such as Christmas and Kwanzaa Topics related to folklore in everyday life, such as sports folklore and courtship/dating folklore Folklore related to cultural groups, such as Appalachian folklore and African-American folklore and more.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Maria Tatar
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780871407566
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 : John F. Szwed,Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 091598069X
Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000103003822
Contains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.