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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Legends
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This collection of anonymous stories and yarns, legends and myths, distills the collective experience of mankind.
Author : Catherine Peck
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Folk literature
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An anthology of popular North American stories that have become part of the folklore of the North America.
Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Folklore
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Author : Nancy Van Laan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
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A collection of Native American legends from North America about animals and nature.
Author : B. A. Botkin
Publisher : Globe Pequot Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2016-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493025350
Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, "So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers...besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders."
Author : Maria Leach
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Folklore
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Tales from American folklore about bad men, ghosts, lies, and Native American tales.
Author : J. E. Bright
Publisher : Auzou
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2015-10
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9782733835593
A perfect bedtime book to discover American folktales.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1437 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0871407566
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
Author : Philip Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486278223
Gathers thirteen stories about the four seasons, why animals fear the porcupine, a hunter who lives with his prey, and the treachery of two corn maidens
Author : Renata Bini
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780810945548
More than 30 stories collected from folklore of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and other countries are accompanied by vibrant, full-color illustrations and brief text that make them ideal for bedtime.