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Swapping Stories : Folktales from Louisiana /
Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. Transcribed from on-the-spot presentations, this collection of narratives includes many genres (ghost stories, tall tales, political anecdotes, animal tales, myths, magic tales, buried treasure tales, and re...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi in association with Louisiana Division of the Arts, Baton Rouge,
1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Louisiana Storytelling Project; Louisiana's Traditional Cultures: An Overview; Louisiana Folklife Bibliography; Louisiana's Folktale Traditions: An Introduction; The Texts of the Tales; Part I. Individual Storytellers; Harold Talbert: Arcadian Anecdotes: Arcadia, Bienville Parish; 1. Wrestling Mania; 2. The Arcadia Dating Game; 3. Popcorn as the Price for Protection; 4. You're Going to Shoot Me Where?; 5. Paying the Price for a Free Train Ride; 6. A Unique Way of Picking Cotton; 7. Gorilla Warfare; 8. A Thorough Baptizing; 9. Responding to the Sermon.
- 10. He Prayed a Good Prayer11. She Got the Spirit; 12. An Extra Passenger on the Bus; 13. The Case of the Missing Sister; 14. Talking Trash; Lonnie Gray: They're All Lies": Bernice, Union Parish; 15. The Bear-Riding Cowboy; 16. A Smart Bear; 17. A Man-Eating Varmint; 18. The Mean Mountaineer; 19. A Rattlesnake Tale (by Mary Gray); 20. It Was So Cold; 21. How the Farmer Saved His Pigs; 22. They Buried Her Too Soon (by Mary Gray); 23. Even After Death Did Them Part; 24. It Was So Hot; 25. Lonnie's First Trip to Town; 26. The Big Fish of Corney Creek; 27. Another Big Fish Story.
- 28. The Devil Made Her Say It29. How to Get a Mule's Attention; 30. A Heaven Joke; 31. A Home Run Inside the Hog; Wilson "Ben Guine" Mitchell: Creole Tales: Parks, St. Martin Parish; 32. Froumi et Grasshopper (The Ant and the Grasshopper); 33. Le petit bonhomme en Coal Tar (The Little Tar-Man); 34. O, Fiva! (Oh, Fiva!); 35. Vieux Neg et Vieux Blanc te gain une course (An Old Black Man and an Old White Man Had a Race); 36. Metayer Joe (Joe the Overseer); Bel Abbey: Koasati Stories: Elton, Jefferson Davis Parish; 37. Learning from the Bear; 38. The Turtle and the Rabbit Run a Race.
- 39. Bel's Encounter with a Wise Owl40. Bel's Encounter with the Rabbit and the Cow; 41. A Duck Hunting Story; 42. How the Buzzard Got a Pierced Nose; 43. Rabbit Rolls into a Ball; 44. The Deer and the Wildcat; 45. Thátkak ilá:ci:fó:kok (The First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans); 46. The First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans; 47. Hacinmánkalá:himá:m (A Man Loses His Breechcloth to a Bull); 48. A Man Loses His Breechcloth to a Bull; Enola Matthews: A Creole and Irish Family Tradition: Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish.
- 49. Bouki, Lapin, et Rat de Bois (Bouki, Rabbit, and Possum)50. Grandes Oreilles (Long Ears); 51. Les trois jobs (TheThree Jobs); 52. Les trois couillons (The Three Fools); 53. Jean Sot, la vache, les chiens, et sa petite soeur (Jean Sot, the Cow, the Dogs, and Little Sister); 54. La fille du Roi (The King's Daughter); 55. Separer le maÏs dans le cimitiere (Dividing Corn in the Cemetery); Alfred Anderson: Master Teacher of a Family Tradition: Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish; 56. The Girls and the Alligator; 57. The Toodling Horn; 58. My Mama Killed Me, My Papa Ate Me; 59. The Lazy Sisters and the Smart Sister.