Gullah folktales from the Georgia coast / Charles Colcock Jones Jr. ; foreword by Susan Millar Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Charles C., Jr. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893.

Contributor:

Williams, Susan Millar, writer for foreword.

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

Standardized Title:

Negro myths from the Georgia coast told in the vernacular

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gullahs--Georgia--Folklore.

Gullahs.

Tales--Georgia--Atlantic Coast.

Tales.

Animals--Folklore.

Animals.

Georgia--Atlantic Coast.

Georgia.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 192 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Summary:

In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now.

Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris's inland Georgia dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through Jones's rendering of the sound and syntax of nineteenth-century Gullah, the lively stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such characters as "Buh Rabbit, " "Buh Ban-Yad Rooster, " and other animals. The tales range from the humorous to the instructional and include stories of the "sperits, " Daddy Jupiter's vision, a dying bullfrog's last wish, and others about how "buh rabbit gained sense" and "why the turkey buzzard won't eat crabs."

Notes:

"Brown Thrasher Books."

Originally published: Negro myths from the Georgia coast told in the vernacular. Boston : Houghton-Mifflin, 1888. With new foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has memo from Joanna Banks with ms. annotation laid in

Banks Collection copy is 21 cm.

ISBN:

0820322164

9780820322162