Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 27

Welcome to the first September round-up! Because I'll be traveling this month, I'm probably not going to be posting much over the next couple of weeks, but I'll be back towards the end of the month with more books and more posts.

Meanwhile, 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 here are this week's books, all of them public domain folktale collections:

At the Big House where Aunt Nancy and Aunt 'Phrony

Held Forth on the Animal Folks

by Anne Virginia Culbertson

Stories For Children

by Mrs. M.R. Allen

Plantation Stories of Old Louisiana

by Andrews Wilkinson

How and Why Stories

by John C. Branner

 Fairy Tales from Brazil:

How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folklore

by Elsie Spicer Eells

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

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 22

Here we are: it's the last round-up of July 2022. Plus you can cruise through all the weekly roundups since the beginning here: so many books! so many round-ups! May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June - July.

And you can also cast your vote for the Anansi Book Club books in August here: August Book Club.

And now.... here are this week's books:

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me!

Narrative Poetry From the Black Oral Tradition

by Bruce Jackson

The Signifying Monkey:

A Theory of African American Literary Criticism

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

From Trickster to Badman:

The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom

by John W. Roberts

Stagger Lee

by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix

Religious Folk-songs of the Southern Negroes

by Howard Odum

The Negro and His Songs:

A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South

by Howard Odum and Guy Johnson

Negro Workaday Songs

by Howard Odum and Guy Johnson

The Books of American Negro Spirituals

by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson 

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 21

Just one more week of July... and then August is here! You can cruise through all the weekly roundups since the beginning here: so many books! so many round-up! May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June - July.

We also started a new book for Anansi Book Club today by the great African American writer Julius Lester: How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have? ... it's available for borrowing from the Internet Archive, just a click away, thanks to the power of Controlled Digital Lending.

And now... here are this week's books:

Sayin' Somethin':

Stories from the National Association of Black Storytellers

The Greenwood Library of American Folktales:

The South and the Caribbean

by Thomas Green

Folklore from Virginia, South Carolina,

Georgia, Alabama, and Florida

by Portia Smiley

Tales of the Congaree

by Edward C.L. Adams

South Carolina Folk Tales:

Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 20

Wow, it's midway through July already! And here are the links going back to the beginning of this African and African Diaspora project... so many books! so many round-up! May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022 - February - March - April - May - June.

And we started a new Anansi Book Club book today; it's a fun one: THE FLYING TORTOISE: An Igbo Tale.

And now, here are this week's books with stories from Caribbean Diaspora storytelling traditions:

Caribbean Stories

by Robert Hull

Traditional Tales from the Caribbean

by Vic Parker

World Myths and Legends: The Caribbean

by Flora Floss

The House in the Sky

by Robert San Souci

 Anansi

by Brian Gleeson

Tiger Soup: An Anansi Story from Jamaica

by Frances Temple

Duppy Talk:

West Indian Tales of Mystery and Magic

by Gerard Hausman

African-American Alphabet:

A Celebration of African-American and West Indian

Culture, Custom, Myth, and Symbol

by Gerald Hausman and Kelvin Rodriquez

Two Evenings in Saramaka

by Richard Price and Sally Price

Travels With Tooy: History, Memory,

and the African American Imagination

by Richard Price

First-Time: The Historical Vision

of an African American People

by Richard Price

Suriname Folklore

by Melville and Frances Herskovits

Rebel Destiny:
Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana

by Melville and Frances Herskovits