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Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486149813
Collection of traditional folk tales introduces a host of interesting people and unusual animals — among them "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Tortoise and His Broken Shell," and "The Boy in the Drum."
Author : William Henry Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UCAL:B4506177
Thirty-six tales from Africa's Gold Coast, include several "Anansi tales" as well as stories about many African animals.
Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110028
Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.
Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Flame Tree 451
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1839647809
Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from Nigeria to Benin, from the cunning spider god Anansi to Agemo, the chameleon spirit deity of the Yoruba people, animals teach humans to farm, to love, to survive and thrive, and offer inspiration for moral purpose. This new collection is created for the modern reader. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000078222043
The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information. To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These 41 tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching.
Author : Richard A. Spears
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810109933
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395539633
Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : IND:30000050862634
Readers everywhere and of any age will be both entertained and instructed by these timeless stories--more than 40 tales of human foibles, magic, and nature--representing fifteen countries, including Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Liberia, Ghana, and Senegal.
Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839649486
From the rift valley come stories of gods, tricksters, cattle and ogres from the many peoples of East Africa. Traditional stories bring a deeper understanding of the movement of peoples across East Africa. Common roots and differences between ancient peoples create a lively portrait with their fragile, powerful gods. The modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and more inherit the folk and mythic tales of the rift valley region. Here you'll find stories of ogres and tricksters, riddles and poems, figures such as the first man (Gikuyu) and woman (Mumbi), and great heroes of history such as Liongo. This new collection is created for the modern reader. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Author : B. A. M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465517326
Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307803191
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
Author : Joanna Troughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 021692605X
Once only Mouse knew, and kept to himself, the stories of how the world came to be until angry Lightning broke down Mouse's door and the stories escaped into the world.
Author : Kwaku A. Adoboli
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781480980136
African Folk Tales By: Kwaku A. Adoboli The author picked up his love of folk tales from his father and his uncle, Okuma Totokpuiti Gamega. In the evening, the kids and some adults sat in a circle around the storytellers listening to the tales. The audience was alive and active, interjecting short songs, remarks, and dances as the tales progressed. Folk tales are for entertainment. That is why the songs and dances come in. The tellers themselves may sing and dance. The children are allowed to tell their tales. Folk tales also teach lessons in obedience, loyalty, forgiveness, justice, and more. Folk tales encompass oral literature, adages, grammar, and dos and don’ts of the language. The tales are meant to teach the young people the customs and norms of their society. They are different from oral history. Oral histories are more involved and cover the behaviors and experiences of the people. The author’s father told these tales with animation, joy, and happiness in three languages: IGO, EWE, and TWI. The tales are universal and can be told in any language. Interpret and propound wisdoms to children and adults in any society. The Western World is aware of the famous African drums, rhythms, and songs. Now the author brings you the unique folk tales. They are not poems to repeat word by word. They are not told the same way twice. The readers can embellish and adjust them to given situations, use them in entertainment, or in expounding moral lessons. Folk tales are for action and are full of active verbs. All the American based tales were originated by the author.
Author : James A. Honey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547155751
This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Maria Tatar
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 44,8 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