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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

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Author

with a foreword, introduction, and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871407535

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Folklore, Anthropology

Rating

4.8 / 5 (424 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14