Afro-American Folk Tales edited & selected by Roger D. Abrahams [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1985 • Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library

Afro-American Folk Tales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World edited & selected by Roger D. Abrahams

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1985] PANTHEON FAIRY TALE & FOLKLORE LIBRARY

Large trade paperback in very good condition.

Clean and unmarked with some shelf / edge wear to cover.

Reads clean. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The newest addition to the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library completes Roger Abrahams's masterful survey of taletelling in the black world by showing the vital forms African stories took as they entered the New

World. These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. Throbbing with life, they range from earthy comedy (in recounting the scandalous doings of tricksters Rabbit and Fox) to inventive "just-so" stories explaining why the world is the way it is, to moral fables about encounters between masters and slaves, kings and servants, black and white. Together, they robustly demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life-and with it, a whole new and vital culture-in the New World.  With black-and-white drawings throughout. Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library