Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture by
Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture explores the importance of sexual desire in the formation of radical Black females' subjectivities in Black women's culture through the trope of the indefinable trickster figure.
Born in a Mighty Bad Land: The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction by
The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like 'Stagolee' and 'John Hardy,' as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced gansta rap. Born in a Mighty Bad Land connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction.
Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art by
Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades.
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. by
Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.
Mules and Men by
Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by famous storyteller and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery.
The Book of Negro Folklore by
Comprehensive collection of folklore and folktales.
Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast by
Stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such characters as 'Buh Rabbit", ''Buh Ban-Yad Rooster,' and other animals. The tales range from the humorous to the instructional and include stories of a dying bullfrog's last wish, and others about how buh rabbit gained sense and why the turkey buzzard won't eat crabs.
Annotated African American Folktales by
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.
The People Could Fly: American Black folktales by
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South; by
Blanche and her mother and older sister live on a small farm in the American south. Blanche is a hard worker and tends the whole farm by herself while her uncaring mother and sister laze about on the porch all day either ignoring or ordering Blanche around. But Blanche's fortunes soon change when she's kind to an old woman she meets in the woods.
Cendrillon: a Caribbean Cinderella by
A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love.
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by
Collection of 19 folktales, legends, and true stories celebrating the heroic cunning, patience, and courage of African-American women and girls.