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Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

Lindahl, Carl
Owens, Maida
Harvison, C. Renee

Paperback

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0878059318
ISBN13: 9780878059317
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Jul 15 1997
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state.

Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews--whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.

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