Afro-American folktales : stories from Black traditions in the New World / selected and edited by Roger D. Abrahams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abrahams, Roger D., editor.

Bascove, cover illustrator, designer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library

The Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Folklore.

African Americans.

Tales--United States.

Tales.

Black people.

United States.

Black people--Caribbean Area--Folklore.

Tales--Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 327 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, 1985.

Contents:

Part I. Getting Things Started: How the World Got Put Together That Way

Part II. Minding Somebody Else's Business and Sometimes Making It Your Own

Part III. Getting a Comeuppance: How (and How Not) to Act Stories

Part IV. How Clever Can You Get? Tales of Trickery and Its Consequences

Part V. The Strong Ones and the Clever: Contests and Confrontations

Part VI. Getting Around Old Master (Most of the Time)

Part VII. In the End, Nonsense.

Notes:

"Book Design by Ray Hooper."

"Cover illustration and design by Bascove."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition".

ISBN:

0394527550 :

0394728858

OCLC:

11091159