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Afro-American Folktales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)

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This addition to the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library completes Roger Abrahams’s masterful survey of taletelling within the black world by showing the necessary 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 up to date Philadelphia. Throbbing with life, they vary from earthy comedy (in recounting the scandalous doings of tricksters Rabbit and Fox) to inventive “just-so” stories explaining why the sector is the way in which it’s, to ethical 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 in their past to fashion a life — and with it, an entire new and necessary culture — within the New World.

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