The annotated African American folktales
(Book)
Contributors
Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0871407531, 9780871407535 (hardcover)
Physical Desc
xcii, 651 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Status
Description
Loading Description...
Subjects
LC Subjects
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor) | NF 398.2089 ANNOTAT 2018 | Checked Out | May 14, 2024 |
More Details
Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0871407531, 9780871407535 (hardcover)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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.
Action
cc,2017-12-06,SB
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gates, H. L., Jr., & Tatar, M. (2018). The annotated African American folktales (First edition.). Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gates, Henry Louis, Jr and Maria Tatar. 2018. The Annotated African American Folktales. Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gates, Henry Louis, Jr and Maria Tatar. The Annotated African American Folktales Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Maria Tatar. The Annotated African American Folktales First edition., Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.