Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 26

Welcome to the final August round-up! Plus, you can visit all the weekly roundups since the beginning last year when this African/Diaspora project began:

Africa: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 
Diaspora: February 2022 - March - April - May - June - July - August.

And don't forget about the Anansi Book Club! The anthology this week is full of wonderful stories from southern Africa: The Stolen Water and Other Stories: Traditional Tales from Namibia by Jennifer Davis.

Now here are all of this week's books, which feature Caribbean stories and storytellers:

Jamaican Song and Story:

Annancy Stories, Digging Sings,

Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes

by Walter Jekyll

 Classic Caribbean Stories

retold by Al Campbell

Under the Storyteller's Spell:

Folktales from the Caribbean

by Faustin Charles

Haitian Creole

by Robert A. Hall, Jr.

Tales of the Caribbean:

The Beginning of Things

by Evan Jones

Tales of the Caribbean:

Witches and Duppies

by Evan Jones

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 25

Welcome to another August round-up! As always, you can visit all the weekly roundups since the beginning back in May 2021 when this African/Diaspora project started: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June - July - August.

And don't forget about the Anansi Book Club! We're reading a wonderful picture book by Gerald McDermott this week: The Magic Tree: A Tale from the Congo.

Now here are all of this week's books:

Baila, Nana, Baila / Dance, Nana, Dance

by Joe Hayes

African Myths

by Carter Woodson

Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales

from the Louisiana Bayou

by Sharon Arms Doucet

Why Lapin's Ears Are Long and

Other Tales of the Louisiana Bayou

by Sharon Arms Doucet

Cajun Folktales

by J. J. Reneaux

Cajun and Creole Folktales:

The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana

by Barry Jean Ancelet

Swapping Stories: Folktales From Louisiana

by Carl Lindahl, Maida Owens,

and C. Renée Harvison

Louisiana Creole Dialect

by James Francis Broussard

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 24

Welcome to the second August round-up! Plus you can cruise through all the weekly roundups since the beginning back in May 2021 when this whole project started: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June - July - August.

I really enjoyed getting to feature some luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance in this week's posts, along with a big update to the spreadsheet listing all the stories too.

Here are all of this week's books:

Animal Fables From the Dark Continent

by Alphonso Orenzo Stafford

The Brownies' Book

Negro Folk Tales from the South

by Arthur Huff Fauset

Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings

by Zora Neale Hurston

The Skull Talks Back and Other Haunting Tales

by Zora Neale Hurston

The Sanctified Church

by Zora Neale Hurston

Go, Gator, and Muddy the Water:

Writings from the Federal Writers' Project

by Zora Neale Hurston

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 23

Welcome to the first August round-up! Plus you can cruise through all the weekly roundups since the beginning back in May 2021 when this whole project started: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June - July.

I focused on scholarly resources this week; the Internet Archive is a serious research library for all of us.

Here are the books from this week:

Black Culture and Black Consciousness

by Lawrence Levine

Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory

and the Foundations of Black America

by Sterling Stuckey

Going Through the Storm: The Influence

of African American Art in History

by Sterling Stuckey

African Folklore in the New World

edited by Daniel Crowley

The Negro and His Folklore
in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

edited by Bruce Jackson

 The Man-of-Words in the West Indies:

Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture

by Roger Abrahams

After Africa: Extracts
from British Travel Accounts and Journals

by Roger Abrahams and John Szwed

Types and Distribution of Negro Folklore in America

by Vivian Costroma Osborne-Marsh