From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore: An Anthology - Hardcover

Dance, Daryl Cumber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393047989 ISBN 13: 9780393047981

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2002

Synopsis

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About this title

Review:

Anthologies that are, at once, as massively enlightening and delightful as this one are rare. -- Buffalo News, Editor's Choice

Dance succeeds admirably, capturing what was largely invisible to many generations. -- Library Journal

Good work, Daryl. You make us proud. -- Nikki Giovanni

This extraordinary book is a treasury that should prove of lasting value and appeal. -- Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes and Jackie Robinson

What an astonishingly rich collection of African American folklore Dance has produced! A major contribution to African American scholarship. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

[A] stunning sampler of African American tradition, compiled by one of America's leading scholars of African American folklore. -- Alan Dundes, Professor of Anthropology and Folklore, University of California, Berkeley

[A]n extensive and impressively rich collection....unparalleled in its coverage and variety as well as in its interpretive commentary. -- Trudier Harris, co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

[T]he grand collection of African American folklore we have long yearned for....a rich and representative selection. -- John Lowe, author of Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy

About the Author:

Daryl Cumber Dance is the author of Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor. She is a professor of English at the University of Richmond.

About this edition

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0393047989
• ISBN 13: 9780393047981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 784