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The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales. pp. xiii– xxxvi. ISBN 9780870235573. Irving, Evelyn Uhrhan (1987). "Reviewed Work(s): The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales by Bernard Binlin Dadié and Karen C. Hatch; The City Where No One Dies by Bernard Binlin Dadié and Jains A. Mayes". World Literature Today. 61 (3): 481.
African literature is ... oral literature or folktales continue to be broadcast ... published what is probably the first African novel written in English, ...
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a 1985 collection of twenty-four folktales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They encompass animal tales (including tricksters ), fairy tales , supernatural tales , and tales of the enslaved Africans (including slave narratives ).
Africanist Sigrid Schmidt asserted that the tale type was particularly widespread in Southeast Africa. [9] In fact, according to her studies, the tale type 707, as well as types 706, Maiden Without Hands, and 510, Cinderella, "found a home in Southern Africa for many generations". [10] Schmidt provided the summary of two manuscript tales.
Dog, and His Human Speech is a Central African folktale collected by missionary Robert Hamill Nassau, from the Tanga people.According to scholars, the tale is related to the folkloric theme of the Calumniated Wife, and finds parallels with European variants of tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index.
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales is a 1995 collection of nineteen stories by Black women, retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They include animal tales, fairy tales (including a version of Cinderella, "Catskinella"), and three biographical profiles of real Black women. All the ...
One Thousand and One Nights, also known as "the Arabian Nights", is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales; The Daredevils of Sassoun, an Armenian folk epic; The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian epic poem; Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest epic of the world from Mesopotamia; Enūma Eliš, The Babylonian creation epic from Mesopotamian ...