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African American Folklore
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Author : Anand Prahlad
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2016
African American Folklore written by Anand Prahlad and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with African Americans categories.
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. 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, are also provided.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore G P
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Author : Anand Prahlad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore G P written by Anand Prahlad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Contains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.
African American Folklore
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Author : Anand Prahlad
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-08-08
African American Folklore written by Anand Prahlad and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-08 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore
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Author : Anand Prahlad
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2005-12-30
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore written by Anand Prahlad and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.
Connection Point
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Author : Lee Ferry
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2009-10-29
Connection Point written by Lee Ferry and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-29 with Social Science categories.
Connection point is a folklore that tells about who the Nig!?r is and where the people known by that name came from. How important is a name to a people? A name is a very powerful vehicle that identifies the people or their tribes. It gives us a history of the people. In essence, we come to understand the nature of the people better; even more, we gain information from each other to make behavior adjustment in the differences we have with each other. The Author takes the folklore he received growing up close to his grandfather and developed it into this book. Lee Ferry took the "N" word to pieces and rendered the word to the departure point of the people, a Niger River Kingdom. Then, in his research appeared the Jewish prince-priest from Yemen, with a Saint George and the Dragon type mission to bring the Songo (River Nig!?rs) back to Judaism. Lee examines the Songo folklore, which seems to coincide with our folklore; they came from Egypt where an island in the Nile had an Israelite Temple on it around the time the Temple was destroyed. The people were Ethiopians. Then the struggle for right or might is on. The story is lively with a bold approach to a subject no one is willing to talk about; yet at the time, it is a fact that this subject needs to be cleaned up once and for all.
From My People
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Author : Daryl Cumber Dance
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2002
From My People written by Daryl Cumber Dance and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
A celebration of African American life and culture brings together four hundred years of folklore, traditional tales, recipes, proverbs, legends, folk songs, and folk art.
A Dictionary And Catalog Of African American Folklife Of The South
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Author : Sherman E. Pyatt
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1999-11-30
A Dictionary And Catalog Of African American Folklife Of The South written by Sherman E. Pyatt and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-30 with Social Science categories.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that address various aspects of African American folklife.
The Annotated African American Folktales
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Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-14
The Annotated African American Folktales 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
African American Folktales
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Author : Roger Abrahams
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2011-07-27
African American Folktales written by Roger Abrahams and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with Social Science categories.
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
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore
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Author : Anand Prahlad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore written by Anand Prahlad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African Americans categories.