{"product_id":"mother-wit-from-the-laughing-alan-dundes-9780878054787","title":"Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore","description":"Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readers cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore \u003ci\u003eMother Wit from the Laughing Barrel\u003c\/i\u003e will be an eye-opening encounter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawn out of the deep, rich well of African American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans. No library or individual with a serious interest in African American folklore should fail to own this remarkable anthology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Dundes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0878054782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780878054787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.80d","brand":"Alan Dundes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120411472127,"sku":"9780878054787","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61fe7ac5-50c1-4897-84ff-f61cbff4831e.jpg?v=1687414173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mother-wit-from-the-laughing-alan-dundes-9780878054787","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}