The Annotated African American Folktales

These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before,The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the traditionof such classics asArthurHuff Fauset’s“Negro Folk Tales from the South”(1927),ZoraNeale Hurston’s Mules and Men(1935), andVirginia…