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Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
by Abrahams, Roger D. - Editor
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394728858
- ISBN 13
- 9780394728858
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Edition Not Stated . Trade Paperback. Good. 6" x 9. 326 Pages. Cover is bright with some edge wear and bottom corner crease. First and last seveeral pages have bottom corners slightly turned up. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. No marks, stamps or underlining. Interior text pages are faultless. Contains 107 folktales and stories in with editor's preface and introduction, plus introductory material to various sections. Includes appendix, index of tales, and bibliography. Tales from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. Throbbing with life, they range from earthy comedy, recounting the scandalous doings of tricksters Rabbit and Fox, to inventive stories explaining why the world is the way it is Includes moral fables about encounters between masters and slaves, kings and servants, black and white. Together they demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life and new and vital culture in the New World.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8698
- Title
- Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
- Author
- Abrahams, Roger D. - Editor
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Not Stated
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0394728858
- ISBN 13
- 9780394728858
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 6" x 9
- Keywords
- UNITED STATES CARIBBEAN AFRO AMERICAN FOLKLORE LITERATURE TALES ANTHOLOGY
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