African Diaspora at the Internet Archive: Spreadsheet (8)

Wow, it's hard to believe that I've been working on the Diaspora spreadsheet for two months already... but the numbers don't lie, ha ha, and there are not over 6000 individual stories linked from the spreadsheet to the pages of books at the Internet Archive, everything just a click away! You can find it all at the African Diaspora Folktale Spreadsheet, where there are now over 90 separate sources indexed:

And, of course, the big African Folktale Spreadsheet is available also, with over 10,000 stories there. You can find out more about how the spreadsheets work here.

Seeing this spreadsheet growing makes me confident that I'll be able to start working on a Reader's Guide for these sources starting this summer, just like I did for the Reader's Guide to African Folktales at the Internet Archive. For the Diaspora book, I will probably have fewer sources that I include — maybe more like 100 sources, rather than 200 — but I will definitely want to include more public domain stories, with 100 stories instead of 50; the public domain sources for the Diaspora stories are much more abundant, and usually come from folklorists and anthropologists, as opposed to the colonial and missionary contexts of the African books.

Meanwhile, do take a look at the Reader's Guide if you have not done so already; free PDF, epub, and other formats too!