Storytellers Folktales and Legends from the South

Name: Storytellers Folktales and Legends from the South
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ISBN: 9780820312675

ISBN-10: 0820312673

ISBN-13: 9780820312675

Edition: N/A

Authors: John A. Burrison

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Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the tellers themselves.Edited and introduced by John A. Burrison and selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students,Storytellersbrings together for the first time in one book a broad variety of tales told in voices of African American, Anglo-Saxon, and Native American heritage. Describing the storytelling communities, the book re-creates the social settings--from a circle of tellers…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 3/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English