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Every Tongue Got To Confess : Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States (01 Edition)
by Zora Neale Hurston  
Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters...
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From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore
by Daryl Cumber Dance Synopsis This anthology collects a wealth of tales that have survived and been adapted over the years, many featuring characters (like Brer' Rabbit) from African culture, including everything from proverbs and recipes to folk songs and rumor. Illustrations....
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
by Allen Dwig Callahan Publisher Comments The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip...
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Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures #39: The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
by Trudier Harris Publisher Comments In ways that are highly individual, says Harris, yet still within a shared oral tradition, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan skillfully use storytelling techniques to define their audiences, reach out and draw them in, and fill them...
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African American Folktales
by Roger D. (edt) Abrahams Publisher Comments From the canefileds of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" (Choice). Full of...
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The Covenant of the Earth: Yoruba Religious & Philosophical Narratives
by Yemi Ogunyemi Synopsis Ile-Ife is a Yoruba ceremonial and trading center from which its people dispersed to find their kingdoms. It is noted for its naturalistic figures in brass and terracotta. It is ageless because it is the cradle of mankind. Ile-Ife is not only the first...
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Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture)
by Alan Dundes Synopsis Essays explore the diversity of Black folk culture as expressed in speech, music, legends, and humor....
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Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars
by Howard W Odum Publisher Comments The second novel in Howard W. Odums Black Ulysses...
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The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore
by Patrick B Mullen Publisher Comments Drawing on over thirty-five years of fieldwork, Patrick B. Mullen considers how African American cultural representations in folklore relate to racial dynamics in the United States. Providing insight into white folklorists’ relationships with black...
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African Folktales in the New World (Folkloristics)
by William Bascom Publisher Comments These essays, devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the New World, represent the last major research project of William Bascom (1912-1981), eminent authority on African art and folklore. His intention was to demonstrate the African...
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Libation: A Literary Pilgrimage Through the African-American Soul
by Estella Conw Majozo Synopsis Libation explains how the cakewalk reaffirms connections with the past among African Americans; how its intricate patterns reflect the landscape of the American South and the pilgrimage of Black Americans from Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman to...
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Mutha Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
by L H Stallings About the Author L. H. Stallings is assistant professor of English at the University of Florida....
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Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
by Linda Goss Publisher Comments Compilation of tales from Afro-American folklore. Among the storytellers included are Zora Neale Hurston, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leadbelly....
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Afro-American folktales :stories from Black traditions in the New World
by Roger D Abrahams
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Dog Ghosts and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales: 1st Edition
by J. Mason Brewer
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Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses
by Howard W Odum
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Jump up & Say!: A Collection of Black Storytelling
by Linda Goss Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and indexes....
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Shuckin and Jivin: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans
by Daryl C Dance Publisher Comments This collection of 565 individual pieces of black folklore provides a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty...this first-rate anthology is recommended for...general readers and specialists....
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Go down Moses: A Celebration of the Afro-American Spirit
by Richard Newman
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Tis So Negro Folk Tales of the Old South
by Sam B Short
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