Jump up and say! : a collection of Black storytelling / [edited by] Linda Goss and Clay Goss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goss, Linda, editor.

Goss, Clay, editor.

Davis, Ossie, writer of introduction.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Storytelling.

Genre:

Fiction.

Collections.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Goss, Clay (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Goss, Linda (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

301 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by Simon & Schuster, [1995].

Summary:

More than seventy stories, including traditional tales from Africa and the West Indies.

Contents:

Introduction / Ossie Davis

Praise song: Spider

Praise song: Challenge / Roy Farrar

Part I. The breaking Day has Wisdom, the Falling Day Experience: Moral Tales. Nana / Julie Dash

The young lion / Teju the Storyteller (Tejumola F. Ologboni)

Don't pay bad for bad / Amos Tutuola

How the leopard got his claws / Chinua Achebe and John Iroaganachi

Frozen in time / Darlene Sterling

Buttermilk / Adora L. Dupree

All that glitters / Munah Mayo

Nzambi and the earth connection / David A. Anderson (Sankofa)

The rain came / Grace Ogot

A village of women / Shanta

Full circle / Walter Dallas

Part II. I will never be any service to anyone as a Slave: Stories about F reedom. A riddle for freedom / William J. Faulkner

Ancient riddle

Heritage / Candece Tarpley

Even the cloth can talk / Proverb

The odyssey of Peter Still: a man who bought himself / Gloria Tuggle Still Spirit of the dead / Haile Gerima

Feet in water, song in the heart / David A. Anderson/Sankofa

Sojourner Truth speaks / Alice McGill

Get on board and tell your story / Gloria Davis Goode

The ballad of the underground railroad / Charles L. Blockson

Part III. When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth: memories and stories about family and friends. In these dissenting times / Alice Walker

The tree of love / Linda Goss

Dear Sis / Arthenia J. Bates

Dad and lunch / Lucy Hurston

Grandma / Charlotte Blake Alston

Nightmare / Malcolm X

The crumb snatchers / Janice "Jawara" Bishop

Zora / Terry McMillan

March / Clay Goss

Bubba / Sonia Sanchez

Thank you, m'am / Langston Hughes

Miss Wunderlich / Hugh Morgan Hill (Brother Blue)

Cheese / E.J. Stewart

Christmas / Anonymous

Part IV. What's the 411? You got it goin' on: rhythm talk. We real cool Gwendolyn Brooks

Jazz scene / Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe

My friend Bennie / Rex Ellis

Nut-brown: a soul psalm / Clay Goss

Lady in brown / Ntozake Shange

Courtin' tales: the wolf, the gator, and the sweet potato vision pie / Debbie Wood Holton

Frog went a-cruzin' / Morton Brooks

Strawberry, strawberry / Harriette Bias Insignares.

Part V. If I'm lying, I'm flying: humorous tales. De day Anancy beat pan / Paul Keens-Douglas

Riley's riddle / Margaret Taylor Burroughs

Br'er Rabbit and the peanut shells / Maxine A. LeGall

Br'er Rabbit builds a home / Jackie Torrence

Why women always take advantage of men / Zora Neale Hurston

Funeral / Mary Carter Smith

Uglyrella / Jose Pena

Nho Lobo / Len Cabral

Willi and Joe Joe and the Pamper diaper ; Willi and Joe Joe them a go to Mardi Gras / Temujin the Storyteller

Part VI. As restless as the tempestuous billow on the boundless sea: stories, songs, and poems of protest and change. We shall overcome / Guy and Candie Carawan

Martin Luther King: a story poem / Charlotte Blake Alston

"Over my head I see freedom in the air": the Albany movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon

Elizabeth Eckford / Martin B. Duberman

The golden bandit / Toni Cade Bambara

On the horizon ; High-rise tenements ; Old Glory's story / Serious Bizness

Roslyn Malamud: the coup ; Carmel Cato: lingering / Anna Deavere Smith

Showdown in L.A. / Rex Ellis

The chronicle of the sacrificed black children / Derrick Bell

My dungeon shook / James Baldwin

Part VII. If you holler too loud, you'll wake up the ghosts: ghost tales and superstitions. Ol' Ben / Rex Ellis

The talking skull / Traditional from West Africa

The 11:59 / Patricia C. McKissack

Ligahoo / Lynn Joseph

If your right hand itches / Willie Louise Martin McNear

Removing the veil / Caroliese I. Frink Reed

The liar's contest / Ed Shockley

Brother Anancy and Brother Tiger / Charlene Welcome Hollis

Part VIII. Now that takes the cake: soul food and food memories. Sunday family dinner / E.J. Stewart

Anancy and the plantains / Pamela Miller Facey

Pulling that yam / Baba M. Jamal Koram, the Story Man Brownlocks and the bears / Vickey Lusk

The little cornbread man / Baba M. Jamal Koram, the Story Man

Philadelphia, Mrs. Greenstein, and terrapins / Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Mary McLeod Bethune: memories / Dorothy L. Height

Watching Uncle Shocum eat / Margaret Ramsey

Having the last say. One day / John Edgar Wideman

Praise poem / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

Praise poem / Maya Angelou.

Notes:

"A Touchstone book."

Introduction (page [19]) by Ossie Davis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy inscribed "Spread the word! Clay Goss, Linda Goss".

Banks Collection paperback edition has illustrations wanting.

Other Format:

Online version: Jump up and say!

ISBN:

0684810905

9780684810904

0684810018

9780684810010

OCLC:

32746142