{"product_id":"the-black-cloth-bernard-binlin-dadie-9780870235573","title":"The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales","description":"First published in France as \u003ci\u003eLe Pagne Noir: Contes Africains\u003c\/i\u003e in 1955. The writing of such chronicles of an African childhood was the author's way of coming to terms with the questions every sensitive colonized person educated in the Western tradition would sooner or later have to ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? While giving poetic and fictional expression to the tensions of independence and the events that led to it, the writer realized that he would at the same time have to rediscover his oral tradition. It was a natural development of what the new African poetry and drama in French, English, and, later, Portuguese, were already doing--probing the inner mysteries of indigenous mythology and symbolism. Only in this way could the enlightened African restore a sense of equilibrium in his people's culture. From the foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernard Binlin Dadie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870235575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870235573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.84w x 0.51d","brand":"Bernard Binlin Dadie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072854716671,"sku":"9780870235573","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bff8ebbf-7a0d-42a6-b430-d0da3874fe62.jpg?v=1685444327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-black-cloth-bernard-binlin-dadie-9780870235573","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}