Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore
Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.Readers cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel will be an eye-opening encounter.Drawn out of the deep, rich well of African American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans. No library or individual with a serious interest in African American folklore should fa
673 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 1972 by Prentice-Hall · ISBN 9780136030010
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4 editions
English
- Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore · Prentice-Hall · 1972 · ISBN 9780136030010 This page
- Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore · University Press of Mississippi · 1990 · ISBN 9780878054787
- Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore · Garland · 1981 · ISBN 9780824094560
- Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore · Prentice-Hall · 1972 · ISBN 9780136030195
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