A Pride of African Tales
Author | : Donna L. Washington |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780060249298 |
A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.
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Author | : Donna L. Washington |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780060249298 |
A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.
Author | : Donna L. Washington |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0060249293 |
A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.
Author | : Gcina Mhlophe |
Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782854444 |
This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales of bravery, wisdom, wit and heroic deeds
Author | : Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1437 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : 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 | : Publications International Ltd. Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780785352396 |
Contains African American folktales adapted and illustrated by various authors and artists; folksongs and hymns; historical information; and profiles of noteworthy African Americans from diverse professions.
Author | : Barbara Knutson |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0761357920 |
Nzambi Mpungu, creator of the earth and sky, has spent a long hard day making the Elephant. By nightfall, Nzambi still hasn't finished her next creation, the Crab, and she tells the little creature to return the following day for a fine head. That night, the proud Crab boasts about the promised head to all the other animals and ends up learning a hard lesson. This tale from the Bakongo people of Zaire, retold and illustrated by Barbara Knutson, will delight readers of all ages.
Author | : James A. Honey |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.
Author | : Nelson Mandela |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Folk tales of the world |
ISBN | : 0393052125 |
Mandela, the Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected 32 African stories for this extraordinary new book, an anthology that presents Africa's oldest folk tales to the children of the world. Full color.
Author | : Phyllis Savory |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1432304917 |
Africa has a wonderfully rich store of folk tales that have been passed down from one generation to the next. There are stories about how the world came into being, stories that tell of the relationships between human beings and between man and his environment, and of the lessons to be learned from everyday experience. The tales are like the fairy talkes told all over the world, but they have a strong African flavour that is as real as the smell of rain on hot earth. The Best of African Folklore takes the reader into an enchanted world where animals can talk and humans are often changed into different forms, where magic is commonplace and reality is turned delightfully on its head. Despite numerous setbacks, things usually turn out all right in the end. Wicked and greedy people (and animals) come off worst and the good receive their just rewards. The gods are stern but fair, and every story has a moral for those who are wise enough to see it.
Author | : Harold Scheub |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005-04-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299209431 |
The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of African literature and culture. Realizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the inner ear in everyone, bringing an oral tradition to life in written form.