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The Annotated African American Folktales Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)

The Annotated African American Folktales By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)

The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)


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Summary

Collected for the first time, these African American folktales reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.

The Annotated African American Folktales Summary

The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)

The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar assemble a ground-breaking collection of folktales, myths and legends that revitalise a vibrant African American past. Beginning with introductory essays and 20 seminal African tales, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics but also stories like Witches Who Ride, out-of-print tales from the Southern Workman and stories that bring Caribbean and Latin American literature in to the canon.

The Annotated African American Folktales Reviews

This handsome book is trumpeted as the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published. It makes good on the claim with 150 stories ranging from the Brer Rabbit tales to fables retrieved from before the American revolution that originated with newly arrived slaves. -- New Statesman
Edited with a foreword, introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar, these nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. -- The Voice

About Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com. Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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CIN0871407531VG
9780871407535
0871407531
The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20171128
752
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