Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
Subtitle: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: December 17, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780878054787
Subjects: Folklore; Literary Criticism; Native American Folklore; Sociology; United States; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Afro-Americans; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Blacks; American - African American & Black; African Americans
First sentence: In most countries of the world there is an ambivalence toward folklore and there has been ever since the science of folkloristics began to develop in the nineteenth century.