Daryl Cumber Dance

Shuckin' and Jivin'

Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of 565 individual pieces of black folklore provides a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty...this first-rate anthology is recommended for...general readers and specialists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 1981
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780253202659
• ISBN-10: 0253202655
• Artikelnr.: 22050655

Autorenporträt

Daryl Cumber Dance, Professor Emerita, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Richmond

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. In the Beginning: Etiological Tales
2. I Raised Hell While I Was There: Tales of Heaven and Hell
3. Dese Bones Gon' Rise Again: Ghost Tales
4. Somebody Clapped for Edith Las' Night: Conjure Tales
5. I Hears de Call: Tales about Religion
6. A Nigger Ain't Shit: Self-Degrading Tales
7. Oh, Lord, Will I Ever? The White Woman and the Black Man
8. I Could Eat Her Up: Tales about Women
9. Be True to Me: Tales about Marital Infidelity
10. Goldstein, Pat, Mike, and the Like: Ethnic Jokes
11. The White Man Is the Devil: Tales about the Cruelty of Whites
12. The Bottom Rail Comes to Be the Top Riser: Outsmarting Whitey
13. I'm A Bad Motherfucker: Tales of the Bad Nigger
14. Down in the Jungle, Out on the Farm: Miscellaneous Animal Tales
15. Are You Ready for This? Miscellaneous Risque Tales
16. A Potpourri: Miscellaneous Black Folklore
Biographies of Major Contributors
Annotations