MOTHER WIT FROM THE LAUGHING BARREL: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore.
by Dundes, Alan, editor
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good overall in dark brown glossy wrappers - toning to pages, some wear to covers, lower corner bumped.
- ISBN 10
- 0136030017
- ISBN 13
- 9780136030010
- Seller
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About This Item
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice-Hall,, (1973). First edition -. Good overall in dark brown glossy wrappers - toning to pages, some wear to covers, lower corner bumped.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Selections which deal with race pride and jokes,the blues, the Ku Klux Klan and Brer Rabbit and much more. Contributions by Zora Neale Hurston, Howard Odum, Eldredge Cleaver, A. Philip Randolph, Bernard Wolfe, Langston Hughes, John Lovell Jr., Alan Lomax and many others. Suggestions for further reading. xiv, 673 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82283
- Title
- MOTHER WIT FROM THE LAUGHING BARREL: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore.
- Author
- Dundes, Alan, editor
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall in dark brown glossy wrappers - toning to pages, some wear to covers, lower corner bumped.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0136030017
- ISBN 13
- 9780136030010
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall,
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
- Date Published
- (1973)
- Keywords
- anthology, folklore, black studies,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American History and nonfiction;
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