{"product_id":"mother-wit-from-the-laughing-barrel-readings-in-the-interpretation-of-afro-american-folklore-paperback","title":"Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Dundes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore \u003ci\u003eMother Wit from the Laughing Barrel\u003c\/i\u003e will be an eye-opening encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn out of the deep, rich well of African American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans. No library or individual with a serious interest in African American folklore should fa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic book covering almost every aspect of the black folk experience, collecting writings by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, and many others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Dundes\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2005) was professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. Among many others, his books include \u003ci\u003eInterpreting Folklore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore\u003c\/i\u003e. He is author of \u003ci\u003eBloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 702\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 17, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449809453234,"sku":"9780878054787","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5d67644be1cce2ddd31cb0f041a9df3a.webp?v=1778773066","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/mother-wit-from-the-laughing-barrel-readings-in-the-interpretation-of-afro-american-folklore-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}