The annotated African American folktales

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Gates, Henry Louis Jr, Maria Tatar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The annotated African American folktales (2018, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company)

651 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2018 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:
978-0-87140-753-5
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OCLC Number:
1006520799

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A treasury of dozens of African-American folktales discusses their role in a broader cultural heritage, sharing such classics as the Brer Rabbit stories, the African trickster Anansi, and tales from the late nineteenth-century's "Southern Workman."

"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 …

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Subjects

  • African Americans
  • Folklore