Description: 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.
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Book Title: Annotated African American Folktales
Book Series: The Annotated Bks.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Item Length: 10.3 in
Publication Year: 2017
Format: Hardcover
Release Year: 2017
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Item Height: 1.9 in
Author: Maria Tatar
Genre: Fiction, Social Science, Literary Collections
Topic: American / African American, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight: 62.9 Oz
Item Width: 9 in
Number of Pages: 651 Pages
