African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World - ISBN: 0375705392


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		"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." - Martin Luther King

	African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
	Roger D. Abrahams (Editor), Roger D. Abrahams (Editor)

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Format: Paperback, 352 pages

Edition: REPRINT

Publisher: Pantheon Books

ISBN: 0375705392

Release Date: Jan 12, 1998

From The Publisher
These tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and (fairly or unfairly) got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include 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. These elaborate, often exaggerated fictions were told by tale spinners mostly for the fun of it, but within them are embedded hard truths about dealing with the world of white people. They offer a robust, engaging demonstration of the ways in which an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their distant past to fashion a life - and with it, a new and vital culture - in the New World.

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

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