African Diaspora at Internet Archive: African Folklore in the New World

I've got another two examples of outsanding secondary literature for the study of African Diaspora folktales, both just a click away at the Internet Archive:

First up is African Folklore in the New World edited by Daniel Crowley, and published in 1977:

This is a collection of six important essays, and readers of this blog will find some familiar names here among the authors, including William Bascom, Roger Abrahams, Alan Dundes, and Richard Dorson. 

The other book is an incredibly useful anthology of primary sources: The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals edited by Bruce Jackson. As you can guess from the title, this is an older book, published in 1967.

You will find 32 articles reprinted here from periodicals like The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's which still exist today, along with important 19th-century periodicals that are no more, like Lippincott's Magazine. You will see a few familiar names among the authors, like Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Bacon, even Antonín Dvořák, but most of the authors are long forgotten, and Jackson has done a great service by collecting these materials, some of them very hard to find even in the digital world of today.

These are both books i am proud to have on my own bookshelves, and it is so exciting that the Internet Archive is making them available online, thanks to the power of Controlled Digital Lending!

African Folklore in the New World

edited by Daniel Crowley

The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

edited by Bruce Jackson