Title: From folklore to fiction
First published: 1988
Description: "Learn it to the younguns" : Passing on folk wisdom / Daryl Cumber Dance -- Chapter 1 - Afro-American folklore : Identification and interpretation -- Preliminary remarks -- Religious folklore -- Secular musical lore -- Secular spoken lore -- Superstitions and conjure -- Chapter 2 - Preachers and bad niggers -- The black preacher -- Bad niggers -- John Henry -- Black Moses -- The bad bad nigger -- Chapter 3 - Tricksters -- Influences on the Afro-American trickster tradition -- Chesnutt to Ellison -- The late fifties and beyond -- Chapter 4 - Rituals -- Defining rituals -- Uncertain transmission : James Weldon Johnson -- The people's idiom - The Harlem Renaissance : Hughes -- Enlarging the perspective : Wright, Walker, Ellison, Baldwin, Marshall -- Toward globalism : Forrest -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Folklore, Rites and ceremonies in literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Folklore in literature, Heroes in literature, African American authors, American fiction, Literature and folklore, African Americans, Histoire et critique, Themes, motifs, Folklore dans la litterature, Auteurs noirs americains, Dans la litterature, Noirs, Auteurs negro-americains, Heros (litterature), Litterature et folklore, Heros dans la litterature, Rites et ceremonies dans la litterature americaine, Noirs americains, Litterature americaine, Roman americain, Noirs americains dans la litterature, Rites et ceremonies dans la litterature, Rites et ceremonies, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans, folklore
Places: United States
LC classification: PS153.N5 T47 1988