African American Folktales : Stories from Black Traditions in the New World - Roger Abrahams

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African American Folktales

Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

By: Roger Abrahams

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Paperback | 15 March 1999 | Edition Number 1

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18.0 x 15.6 x 2.5

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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 life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining 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 includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early nineteenth century, 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.

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"Roger D. Abrahams is one of the preeminent scholars of African American vernacular culture." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "The text rolls along easily and amusingly. The rales are divided into types--trickster stories, moral example stories, old master stories--so that you can find the right sort of story for your taste or mood. Skipping about, in fact, is the way to enjoy the book and to appreciate the variety of background, tone, and narrative structure that it reveals." --The Atlantic

"In spite of the scholarly fullness of this book, the earthiness and zestful wit of the tales themselves are uncompromised . . . Abrahams' thesis--that the black storytelling tradition is an incredibly rich and affirmative one--is well served by this extraordinary book, which is likely to become a standard text in the field." --Choice

"Earthy and comedic . . . a rousing good read . . . I suspect Mr. Abraham's book will be read a generation hence." --The New York Times Book Review

"Another masterful addition and accessible introduction to the captured myths of what the Mede calls 'God's Chiefdom' . . . Sweeping across the continent . . . the juxtaposition of tribes and pacing of story lengths make for lively reading." --The Washington Post Book World

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Preface
Introduction	p. 3
Never Seen His Equal	p. 41
The Man Makes and the Woman Takes	p. 42
Bringing Men and Women Together	p. 45
The Fight over Life	p. 46
The Wind and the Water Fighting	p. 47
The Word the Devil Made Up	p. 48
The Knee-High Man Tries to Get Sizable	p. 49
Pig's Long Nose and Greedy Mouth	p. 50
Getting Common Sense	p. 52
Hankering for a Long Tail	p. 53
The Devil's Doing	p. 62
The John Crows Lose Their Hair	p. 63
Tadpole Loses His Tail	p. 65
The Owl Never Sleeps at Night	p. 66
Why Hens Are Afraid of Owls	p. 68
The Gifts of Dipper and Cowhide	p. 69
Buh Nansi Scares Buh Lion	p. 72
Testing the Good Lord	p. 74
Mr. Possum Loves Peace	p. 75
Get Back, Get Back	p. 77
No Justice on Earth	p. 78
Meeting the King of the World	p. 85
Mr. Bamancoo Gets Dropped	p. 87
The Tug-of-War between Elephant and Whale	p. 89
Tiger Becomes a Riding Horse	p. 91
The Telltale Pepper Bush	p. 94
Making the Stone Smoke	p. 97
The Latest Song	p. 99
The Signifying Monkey	p. 101
The Singing Bones	p. 105
A Boarhog for a Husband	p. 108
The Woman Who Was a Bird	p. 111
My Mother Killed Me, My Father Ate Me	p. 113
What Makes Brer Wasp Have a Short Patience	p. 119
Between the Fiddler and the Dancer	p. 121
Being Greedy Chokes Anansi	p. 122
The Doings and Undoings of the Dogoshes	p. 123
Spreading Fingers for Friendship	p. 124
Don't Shoot Me, Dyer, Don't Shoot Me	p. 125
Little Eight John	p. 128
The Poor Man and the Snake	p. 130
The Little Bird Grows	p. 132
Tricking All the Kings	p. 136
The Feast on the Mountain and the Feast under the Water	p. 140
Hide Anger until Tomorrow	p. 141
Buying Two Empty Hands	p. 142
Cutta Cord-La	p. 144
Brer Bear's Grapevine	p. 147
A Foolish Mother	p. 149
Old Granny Grinny Granny	p. 151
You Never Know What Trouble Is until It Finds You	p. 153
He Pays for the Provisions	p. 159
The Cunning Cockroach	p. 163
Little Boy-Bear Nurses the Alligator Children	p. 164
The Girl Made of Butter	p. 167
Poppa Stole the Deacon's Bull	p. 169
The Trouble with Helping Out	p. 173
The Rooster Goes Away in a Huff	p. 175
Why They Name the Stories for Anansi	p. 182
Brother Rabbit Takes a Walk	p. 183
The Lion in the Well	p. 185
A License to Steal	p. 192
The Race between Toad and Donkey	p. 194
Crawling into the Elephant's Belly	p. 197
A Strange Way to Sleep	p. 199
Goobers Gone, Rabbit Gone	p. 200
Assaulting All the Senses	p. 202
Brer Rabbit's Riddle	p. 203
The Horned Animals' Party	p. 206
Anansi Plays Dead	p. 207
Anansi Climbs the Wall	p. 210
Dancing to the River	p. 211
"Trouble" Coming Down the Road	p. 214
No Chicken Tonight	p. 216
Golden Breasts, Diamond Navel, Chain of Gold	p. 223
The Flying Contest	p. 230
Loggerhead	p. 232
Trying to Get the Goldstone	p. 234
Stackolee	p. 238
Escaping, Slowly	p. 240
Turning into Nouna - Nothing	p. 241
The Old Bull and the Young One	p. 244
Fasting for the Hand of the Queen's Daughter	p. 251
Weak in the Day and Strong at Night	p. 253
Jack Beats the Devil	p. 255
Three Killed Florrie, Florrie Killed Ten	p. 260
They Both Had Dead Horses	p. 270
You Talk Too Much, Anyhow	p. 274
Making the Eyes Run	p. 275
Making a Wagon from a Wheelbarrow	p. 276
The One-Legged Turkey	p. 277
John Outruns the Lord	p. 278
A Flying Fool	p. 280
Horses Stay Outside	p. 281
The Sinking of the Titanic	p. 282
Competition for Laziness	p. 283
John Outwits Mr. Berkeley	p. 284
Black Jack and White Jack	p. 288
Philanewyork	p. 291
The Barn Is Burning	p. 293
Big-Gut, Big-Head, Stringy-Leg	p. 300
A Chain of Won'ts	p. 300
Animal Talk	p. 301
A Comic Conversation	p. 302
A Smoking Story	p. 303
The Things That Talked	p. 304
Endings	p. 305
Appendix: Sources, Annotations, and Index of Tales	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 321
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 325
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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