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Talk that talk : an anthology of African-American storytelling / edited by Linda Goss & Marian E. Barnes.

Goss, Linda. (Added Author). Barnes, Marian E. (Added Author).

Summary:

Contains almost 100 stories by famous yarn-spinners from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, ranging from ghost stories to ghetto adventures.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0671671685 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780671671686 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0671671677 (hard) :
  • ISBN: 9780671671679 (hard)
  • Physical Description: 521 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1989.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Touchstone book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-511).
Formatted Contents Note:
Brer Tiger and the big wind / Faulkner -- No tracks coming back / Fauset -- Brer Rabbit and the briar patch / Reed -- King of de world / Hurston -- Why Anansi hides in corners / Nabawi -- Anancy an him story / Bennett -- Anansi's riding horse / Barnes -- Rooster and roach / Bass -- The ant story / Garcia-Barrio -- Why the rabbit is alert / Brown -- Brer Rabbit and Buh King / Umolo -- The frog who wanted to be a singer / Goss -- The butterfly / Hill -- Don't play with your supper / Asare -- Bush got ears / Clarke -- How trouble made the monkey eat pepper / Cox -- Uglier than a grinning buzzard / Anderson -- The story of skunk and why he has such a bad smell / Harold -- How the snake got his rattles / Lester -- A tunnel to our ancestors / Nwankwo -- The story of the eagle / Robinson -- How we got over / Maddox -- How the slaves helped each other / Faulkner -- Harriet Tubman is in my blood / Wilkins -- The Ibo landing story / Quimby -- A pioneer's story of Long Creek, Guyana / Clarke -- An old woman remembers / Brown -- The violence of desperate men / King, Jr. -- Bloody Sunday / Robinson -- Looking back at my Texas heritage / Simond -- Solitary confinement / Mandela -- Vietnam blues / Kirkland -- The creation / Johnson -- The prodigal son / Franklin -- Ezekiel and the vision of dry bones / Anderson -- The case of the missing strawberry pie / Torrence -- I cannot tell a lie peach cobbler pie / Goss -- Annie, the bully / Randall -- Daddy / King -- Death of a boy / Achebe -- Sikhamba-nge-nyanga / Jordan -- The lion and the Ashiko drum / Koram -- Warugunga / Gethaiga -- River and the foolish one / Asare -- Don't have a baby till you read this / Giovanni -- Aunt Zurletha / Dee -- Just don't never give up on love / Sanchez -- Song for my mother, prayer for my father / Goss -- Aunt Sue's stories / Hughes -- The Boogah Man / Dunbar -- The monkey woman / Garcia-Barrio -- Ways of a witch / Faulkner -- The two sons / McGill -- Miss Venora / McGill -- The white dog / Gigettes -- Barney McKay / Hunter -- Daddy and the Plat-Eye Ghost / Tate -- Kate, the bell witch / Torrence -- Taily Po / Anderson -- Jumbie, Duppy, an Spirit / Keens-Douglas -- Big fear and little fear / Fauset -- Ballad of the hoppy-toad / Walker -- Devil's dulcimer / Harrington -- Jack and de devil / Hurston -- A laugh that meant freedom / Brewer -- The lying bee / Clarke -- Good and drunk / Barnes -- Rock, church / Hughes -- Revolt of the angels / Clarke -- Two kinds of women / Ologboni -- Cindy Ellie, a modern fairy tale / Smith -- Si Mary Bigfoot / Warren-Jacobs -- Umu Madu in the good old days / Echewa -- Liberated / Cooper -- February / Gregory -- The party / Dunbar -- Jump rope rhymes -- John Henry / Leadbelly -- The tale of Boll Weevil / Leadbelly -- Legend of Dolemite / Nduma -- Signifyin' monkey / Brown, Jr. -- De wedding / Keens-Douglas -- Weekend glory / Angelou -- The ballad of Joe Meek / Brown -- Harriet Tubman / Greenfield -- African-American history rap / Holley -- Get Ready, Inc. / Henderson -- Spread the word, a storyteller's rap / Goss -- Commentaries: Animal tales and lore / Baker, Jr. -- Trickster, the revolutionary hero / Sertima -- Role of the Griot / Kouyate -- The black preacher as storyteller / Wiggins, Jr. -- Historical arenas of African American storytelling / Robinson -- Caddy buffers, legends of a middle class black family in Philadelphia / Morgan -- Creatures that haunt the Americas / Garcia-Barrio -- Storytelling and comic performance / Coleman -- The Georgia Sea Island Singers, Frankie and Doug Quimby / Barnes -- Folk poetry in the storytelling tradition / Asante.

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Subject:
African Americans > Folklore.
Tales > United States.
African Americans > History > Miscellanea.
African Americans.
Tales.
United States.
Genre:
Fables.
Folklore.
History.
Miscellanea.

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300 . ‡a521 pages ; ‡c24 cm.
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