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Get your ass in the water and swim like me : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition / [compiled by] Bruce Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk poetry, American.
- Toasts (African American folk poetry).
- Narrative poetry, American.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Oral tradition--United States.
- Oral tradition.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1975 and regarded as one of the great collections of African-American literature and folklore, brings together some of the best examples of the black folk poetry known as
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; The Toasts; The Toast World; The Toasts; Books and Articles Cited; Index of Names; Index of First Lines
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and indexes.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786610216529
- 9781135879280
- 1135879281
- 9781135879297
- 113587929X
- 9781280216527
- 1280216522
- 9780203323311
- 0203323319
- OCLC:
- 71834918
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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