Creole Folktales

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459603141
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creole Folktales (Large Print 16pt) written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unusual collection of stories and fables, Goncourt prize-winner Patrick Chamoiseau re-creates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique....

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496806565
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cajun and Creole Folktales written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings--the Cajun French and its English translation--along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales--all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.

Author : Nathan Rabalais
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175579
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana written by Nathan Rabalais and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana’s remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state’s folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by Louisiana’s major ethnic groups—slavery, the grand dérangement, linguistic discrimination—resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts. Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero’s ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana’s folklore tradition, such as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the state’s cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children’s books. Through its adaptive use of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for future generations.

Author : Alcée Fortier
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781935754107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Folktales written by Alcée Fortier and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. J. Reneaux
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874832839
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cajun Folktales written by J. J. Reneaux and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-six traditional Cajun tales, including animal stories, fairy tales, ghost stories, and humorous tales.

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 9781565843967
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creole Folktales written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by The New Press. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of tales about trickery, prosperity, hunger, and chicanery

Author : Alcée Fortier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Folk-tales written by Alcée Fortier and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Roy Williams
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434304671
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bouki's Honey written by Arthur Roy Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lapin the rabbit tricks Bouki the donkey out of his honey. Includes a glossary and pronunciation guide to ten Creole words or expressions.

Author : Carl Lindahl
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800826
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swapping Stories written by Carl Lindahl and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews—whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.

Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307803198
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Folktales written by Roger Abrahams and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library