JUMP UP AND SAY
Subtitle: A Collection of Black Storytelling
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: November 16, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780684810010
Subjects: Short stories; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Reference; Ethnic - General; Short stories, American; Fiction / General; African American authors; African Americans
Description: Jump Up and Say! features more than seventy stories about the wide range of the Black experience, including traditional tales from Africa and the West Indies. Collected here are family stories and moral fables, ghost stories and tales rich in humor, as well as raps and rhymes, memoirs and songs, and stories and poems about freedom, protest, and change. In this collection, voices spanning centuries, continents, and cultures blend to celebrate the African-American storytelling tradition.