Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel - Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore (Paperback)

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.

Readers cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore "Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel" will be an eye-opening encounter.

Drawn out of the deep, rich well of African American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans. No library or individual with a serious interest in African American folklore should fail to own this remarkable anthology.

General

Imprint:	University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1990
First published:	December 1990
Editors:	Alan Dundes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-0-87805-478-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology
LSN:	0-87805-478-2
Barcode:	9780878054787

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