Latin American Folktales
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Author |
: John Bierhorst |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307426581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307426580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latin American Folktales by : John Bierhorst
Over one hundred stories showcasing the wisdom and artistry of one the world’s richest folktale traditions—the first panoramic anthology of Hispano-American folk narratives in any language. Gathered from twenty countries and combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America, the stories brought together here represent a core collection of classic Latin American folktales. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the three daughters who robbed their father's grave, and the wife in disguise who married her own husband—not to mention the Bear's son, the tricksters Fox and Monkey, the two compadres, and the classic rogue Pedro de Urdemalas. Featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout, this Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library edition is unprecedented in size and scope, including riddles, folk prayers, and fables never before translated into English.
Author |
: Pilar Almoina De Carrera |
Publisher |
: Groundwood Books |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UTEXAS:059173014304711 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Little Book of Latin American Folktales by : Pilar Almoina De Carrera
Stories retold by Pilar Almoina de Carrera and others with pictures by Maria Fernande Oliver and others.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 043924398X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780439243988 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Golden Tales by :
Twelve classic tales from Latin America - before and after the days of Columbus.
Author |
: Jaime Hernandez |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1536453390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781536453393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dragon Slayer by : Jaime Hernandez
"A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"--
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 1977-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816543885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816543887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mexican Folk Tales by :
Intriguing collection of authentic stories preserves a colorful part of the Mexican heritage. Tales center around Legends of the Devil, The strange Doings of the Saints, and The Mysteries of Human Life.
Author |
: Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Publisher |
: Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 1437 |
Release |
: 2017-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780871407566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0871407566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) by : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
Author |
: Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1600609007 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781600609008 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Summer of the Mariposas by : Guadalupe Garcia McCall
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Author |
: Roger Abrahams |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2011-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307803184 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030780318X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis African American Folktales by : Roger Abrahams
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library
Author |
: Sharon Barcan Elswit |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2015-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476622293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476622299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Latin American Story Finder by : Sharon Barcan Elswit
Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth. One in a series of folklore reference guides ("...an invaluable resource..."--School Library Journal), this book features summaries and sources of 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region underrepresented in collections of world folklore. The volume sends users to the best stories retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and more than 75 indigenous tribes from 21 countries. The tales are grouped into themed sections with a detailed subject index.
Author |
: John Bierhorst |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0329846442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780329846442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latin American Folktales by : John Bierhorst
Presents more than a hundred Hispanic and Native American legends and folk stories from twenty countries, grouped by theme.