Author: May Augusta Klipple
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
African Folk Tales with Foreign Analogues
Author: May Augusta Klipple
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
African Folk Tales with Foreign Analogues
Author: May Augusta Klipple
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
West African Folktales
Author: Richard A. Spears
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081010993X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081010993X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
African American Folktales
Author: Roger Abrahams
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 030780318X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 030780318X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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
African Folklore
Author: Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
African Folktales in the New World
Author: William Russell Bascom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"These essays . . . are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts." —Choice " . . . this is Bascom at his best. . . . an attractive and full-bodied book." —Fabula 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 roots of African American folktales.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"These essays . . . are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts." —Choice " . . . this is Bascom at his best. . . . an attractive and full-bodied book." —Fabula 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 roots of African American folktales.
The Trickster Comes West
Author: Babacar M'baye
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression. Works discussed in this book include Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1795), Elizabeth Hart Thwaites's “History of Methodism” (1804), Anne Hart Gilbert's "History of Methodism" (1804), and Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself (1831). Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom, The Trickster Comes West relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression. Works discussed in this book include Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1795), Elizabeth Hart Thwaites's “History of Methodism” (1804), Anne Hart Gilbert's "History of Methodism" (1804), and Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself (1831). Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom, The Trickster Comes West relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.
Cajun and Creole Folktales
Author: Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496806565
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings—the Cajun French and its English translation—along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales—all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496806565
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings—the Cajun French and its English translation—along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales—all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.
Great Australian Stories
Author: Graham Seal
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458716813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Folklore.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458716813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Folklore.
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship
Author: Mary MacGregor-Villarreal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815312437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A survey of Brazilian folklore studies and an annotated bibliography of major works on the subject. It examines orally-communicated tales as well as theoretical and methodological literature and folk narrative scholarship before and after 1950, and compares major research developments in Euro-American folk narrative. Appendices present a reading guide and sample narrative texts. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815312437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A survey of Brazilian folklore studies and an annotated bibliography of major works on the subject. It examines orally-communicated tales as well as theoretical and methodological literature and folk narrative scholarship before and after 1950, and compares major research developments in Euro-American folk narrative. Appendices present a reading guide and sample narrative texts. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR