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Storytellers - (Brown Thrasher Books) by John a Burrison (Paperback)

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  • Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South.
  • About the Author: JOHN A. BURRISON is a professor of English and director of the folklore curriculum at Georgia State University.
  • 400 Pages
  • Social Science, Folklore & Mythology
  • Series Name: Brown Thrasher Books

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Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the tellers themselves.



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Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the tellers themselves.

Edited and introduced by John A. Burrison and selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students, Storytellers brings together for the first time in one book a broad variety of tales told in voices of African American, Anglo-Saxon, and Native American heritage. Describing the storytelling communities, the book re-creates the social settings--from a circle of tellers in a small town to three generations of a single family--where folktales circulate like living currency, changed and increased as they pass from person to person. The book visits individuals who give new voice to the oral tradition of their childhoods, telling again how the cricket trimmed the possum's tail, recasting an old tale of Master and John as "John Meets Lester Maddox," and spinning outrageous tall tales from out of the still mysterious frontier of the Okefenokee Swamp.

Ranging from "vulga" tales swapped by men and overheard by women to the adventures of Jack the Rogue, from the unbelievable stupidity of "fool Irishmen" to the horror of witches bounding through the darkened countryside, from instructive tales to illogical jests and puns, the oral record brought together in Storytellers speaks of the South--not one South but many, a region whose diversity is revealed and preserved in the telling of tales.



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[The stories] testify to the enormously rich vein of imagination and humor of this area. . . . Storytellers makes fine, enjoyable reading. Its best influence might be to inspire readers to remember stories of their own.

--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

As educators strive to improve the teaching of history, they could turn to no better resource than Storytellers.

--Journal of American History

Lovers of tall tales will love being lost in Storytellers. . . . A rich affirmation of our storytelling heritage. Who can resist 'two-hundred sixty of the South's best stories'?

--New Orleans Times-Picayune

You don't have to be from the South to appreciate the down-home, backwoods humor of this wonderful book. . . . Whether you're a rebel or a Yankee, the atmosphere created by Storytellers is one of hospitality.

--Charlotte Observer



About the Author



JOHN A. BURRISON is a professor of English and director of the folklore curriculum at Georgia State University. His other books include Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South and Shaping Traditions: Folk Art in a Changing South (both Georgia).
Dimensions (Overall): 8.87 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x 1.05 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 400
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Folklore & Mythology
Series Title: Brown Thrasher Books
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback
Author: John a Burrison
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 1991
TCIN: 94571591
UPC: 9780820312675
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-2327
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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