Showing posts with label 2021 June. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2021 June. Show all posts

Saturday, June 26, 2021

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 6

And here we are, time for another week's round-up already! Here are the previous round-ups: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5.

This week the focus was on anthologies:

Favorite African Folktales
edited by Nelson Mandela



The River that Went to the Sky:
Twelve Tales by African Storytellers
edited by Mary Medlicott

A Treasury of African Folklore
edited by Harold Courlander

African Folktales
edited by Paul Radin


African Folktales and Sculpture
edited by Paul Radin



The African Storyteller:
Stories from African Oral Traditions
by Harold Scheub

African Folktales:
Traditional Stories of the Black World
edited by Roger Abrahams

Saturday, June 19, 2021

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 5

Wow, another week gone! My life has been kind of chaotic (spending this summer remodeling new house), so it is really good to have this little biblio-project helping me do something every day and then watch the weeks zoom on by! Here are the previous round-ups: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4.

And here's a round-up of the books from Week 5 which focused on storytelling traditions from North Africa:


The Sultan's Fool and Other North African Tales
by Robert Gilstrap and Irene Estabrook
details at the blog post




Tales and Legends of Morocco
by Elisa Chimenti
details at the blog post




Moorish Literature
by Rene Basset
details at the blog post




Wisdom from the Nile
by Ahmed Al-Shahi and F.C.T. Moore
details at the blog post




Folktales of Egypt
by Hasan El-Shamy
details at the blog post




The Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from Algeria
by Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush
details at the blog post




Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel
by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Aliza Shenhar
details at the blog post




Saturday, June 12, 2021

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 4

Here's a round-up of this week's African folklore book recommendations, all free to read online (plus a post about a non-recommendation about some problematic books too: Thoughts on Telling the Stories and Doing the Work), and here are links to the round-ups for Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3.

I'll be back tomorrow starting a new week with more books! :-)



The Bushman's Dream:
African Tales of the Creation
by Jenny Seed




Stories that Float from Afar:
Ancestral Folklore of the San of Southern Africa
by J. David Lewis-Williams




Specimens of Bushman Folklore
by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
details at the blog post




The Mantis and His Friends:
Bushman Folklore

by Dorothea Bleek
details at the blog post




Reynard the Fox in South African, or
Hottentot Fables and Tales

by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
details at the blog post



Oral Literature in Africa
by Ruth Finnegan




The Lion and the Ostrich Chicks
written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Saturday, June 5, 2021

African Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 3

Slowly but surely, the Internet Archive SHARED bookshelf of African folklore books is growing and growing! I just finished Week 3 of daily recommendations, and I'll be dedicating next week to stories from the San people (sometimes called "Bushman" people) of southern Africa. Here's the round-up of the past week, and you can see similar round-up posts for Week 1 and Week 2 also. Happy weekend, everybody!



Tales from the Story Hat
by Verna Aardema
details at the blog post




Koi and the Kola Nuts
by Brian Gleeson
details at the blog post




Ashanti Proverbs
by R. Sutherland Rattray
details at the blog post


I also started work on an African animal proverbs project
(click on information at bottom of each slide to learn more)




Tales of an Ashanti Father
by Peggy Appiah
details at the blog post




Stories of Africa
by Gcina Mhlophe
details at the blog post




Lion Outwitted by Hare
by Phyllis Savory
details at the blog post




Tales from Southern Africa
by A. C. Jordan
details at the blog post