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Books with author Roger Abrahams

  • Afro-American Folktales

    Roger Abrahams

    Paperback (Pantheon, March 12, 1985)
    This 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.
  • African Folktales

    Roger Abrahams

    Paperback (Pantheon, Aug. 12, 1983)
    The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns.With black-and-white drawings throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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  • African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

    Roger Abrahams

    eBook (Pantheon, July 27, 2011)
    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 throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library
  • African Folktales

    Roger Abrahams

    eBook (Pantheon, Aug. 3, 2011)
    The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns.With black-and-white drawings throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
  • African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

    Roger Abrahams

    Paperback (Pantheon, Jan. 9, 1999)
    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 throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library
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  • Afro-American folktales: Stories from Black traditions in the New World

    Roger D. Abrahams

    Paperback (Pantheon Books, Aug. 16, 1985)
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  • African folktales: Traditional stories of the Black world

    Roger D Abrahams

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, Aug. 16, 1983)
    Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms.
  • African Folktales

    Roger Abrahams

    Paperback Bunko (Pantheon, Aug. 12, 1983)
    Brand New. Will be shipped from US.
  • Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

    Roger D. Abrahams

    Library Binding (Demco Media, March 1, 1985)
    Encompasses more than 100 folktales, including just-so stories, moral fables, and comedic anecdotes, from the slave culture of the antebellum South, the streets of urban America, and villages of the Caribbean islands
  • African American Folktales: Stories From Black Traditions In The New World

    Roger D. Abrahams

    School & Library Binding (Pantheon Books, Jan. 9, 1999)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An intriguing compendium of 107 folklore and legends from the antebellum South, the islands of the Caribbean, and urban America celebrate the rich and vital traditions of African American culture.
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  • African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World

    Roger D. Abrahams

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-05-16, May 16, 2008)
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  • African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World

    Roger D. Abrahams, Dan Frank

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval, Aug. 16, 1983)
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