The Annotated African American Folktales

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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

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.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore A F

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Author : Anand Prahlad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Folklore A F 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.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Literature U Z

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Author : Hans A. Ostrom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of African American Literature U Z written by Hans A. Ostrom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Designed to meet the needs of high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on African American literature from its origins to the present. Other works include many brief entries, or offer extended biographical sketches of a limited selection of writers. This encyclopedia surpasses existing references by offering full and current coverage of a vast range of authors and topics. While most of the entries are on individual authors, the encyclopedia gathers together information about the genres and geographical and cultural environments in which these writers have worked, and the social, political, and aesthetic movements in which they have participated. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical and cultural forces that have shaped African American writing. - Publisher.

The African American Encyclopedia

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Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
Release Date : 2001

The African American Encyclopedia written by R. Kent Rasmussen and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

New Essays On The African American Novel

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Author : Lovalerie King
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2008-05-15

New Essays On The African American Novel written by Lovalerie King and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-15 with Fiction categories.

This collection contributes to and advances scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition—from the spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz to hip hop—on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

The Journal Of American Folklore

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

The Journal Of American Folklore written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Folklore categories.

The Oxford Companion To African American Literature

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Author : William L. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997

The Oxford Companion To African American Literature written by William L. Andrews and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.

This, the first comprehensive one-volume reference work devoted to African American literature, contains much information on little known writers unavailable elsewhere. The book covers all types of genre and examines unique aspects of Afro-Americanism

Catalog Of The Library Of The National Museum Of African Art Branch Of The Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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Author : Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch
language : en
Publisher: G. K. Hall
Release Date : 1991

Catalog Of The Library Of The National Museum Of African Art Branch Of The Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and has been published by G. K. Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.

The Kaiser Index To Black Resources 1948 1986 D H

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

The Kaiser Index To Black Resources 1948 1986 D H written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with African Americans categories.