From the Book - First edition.
Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar. Making sense of the world with Anansi : stories, wisdom, and contradiction
Figuring it out : facing complications with dilemma tales
Adding enchantment to wisdom : fairy tales work their magic
Telling tales today : oral narratives from Africa. Defiance and desire : flying Africans and magical instruments
Fears and phobias : witches, hants, and spooks
Speech and silence : talking skulls and singing tortoises
Silence and passive resistance : the tar-baby story
Kindness and treachery : slipping the trap
Joel Chandler Harris and the Uncle Remus tales
Folklore from the Southern Workman and the Journal of American Folklore
Folktales from The Brownies' Book
Zora Neale Hurston collects African American folklore
Lessons in laughter : tales about John and Old Master
How in the world? : pourquoi tales
Ballads : heroes, outlaws, and monkey business
Artists, pro and con : preacher tales
Folkloric cousins abroad : tales from Caribbean and Latin American cultures
Something borrowed, something blue : fairy tales
Prefaces to collections and manifestos about collecting African American lore
Poets and philosophers remember stories : meditations on African American lore
IMAGE GALLERY. Tale-telling sites : at home and in common spaces
Tale-telling sites : places of labor
Illustrated poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Joel Chandler Harris and the Uncle Remus tales.
