Storytellers : folktales & legends from the South / edited by John A. Burrison.
A collection of over 250 authentic folktales that reflect the oral tradition of the South, selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students.
Record details
- ISBN: 0820312673
- ISBN: 9780820312675
- Physical Description: vii, 392 pages : music ; 23 cm
- Copyright: ©1991
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Brown Thrasher Books."
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-381) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- Four storytellers of Cedartown, west Georgia / Betsy Ostrander and Kay Long -- A joke session by deer hunters in middle Georgia / Nan Gilmer Long -- Two west Tennessee family legends across three generations / Nancy Phillips -- Lloyd Arneach: Cherokee Indian myths and legends / Edwina Roland -- Lee Drake: Afro-American tales / Judith J. Nelson -- Lem Griffis: Okefenokee swamp yarns / Kay L. Cothran -- "Ordinary" folktales -- Animal and human tricksters -- Jests -- Instructive tales -- Anecdotes -- Legends.
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- Tales > Southern States.
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| 264 | . | ‡aAthens : ‡bUniversity of Georgia Press, ‡c[1991] | |
| 264 | 4. | ‡c©1991 | |
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