[PDF/EPUB] (The People Could Fly American Black Folktales)

• Hardcover
• 192
• The People Could Fly American Black Folktales
• Virginia Hamilton
• English
• 03 June 2020
• 9780375804717

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READ & DOWNLOAD The People Could Fly American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton ½ 6 READ DOWNLOAD Ù PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ½ Virginia Hamilton Ept her ancestor's culture alive during the days of slavery This edition comes with an audio. Most of the stories are folk tales so there is a certain amount of repetition I really appreciated the source notes on where the tale came from because there are familiar elements from other sources The Two Johns was almost exactly like something I d read in a book of fairy tales but its origins are Portuguese from where it was carried down through slaves but it was also carried into European fairy talesThe last section contains some true stories and some that appear to be less true and these were the most interesting to me That is especially true for the title tale The People Could Fly which is beautiful and still affecting all these years later

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READ & DOWNLOAD The People Could Fly American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton ½ 6 READ DOWNLOAD Ù PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ½ Virginia Hamilton In this exclusive 15th anniversary edition Hamilton tells 24 American Black folktales that k. The young woman lifted one foot in the air Then the other She flew clumsily at first with the child now held tightly in her arms Then she felt the magic the African mystery Say she rose just as free as a bird As light as a featherThis cherished image of escape from slavery is one of the most famous in all of folklore What about the rest of the book I would almost recommend that you read it in reverse it felt to me like the stories got steadily better near the endThe stories are divided into four groups The first group is talking animal stories a mix of trickster stories and Just So stories It was my least favorite part of the book I am not predisposed to talking animals and the heavy dialect made it hard for me to catch the cadence of the story tellingThe author calls it dialect although modern linguists might call it an older form of AAEThe second batch is fantastical stories that feel a lot like a classic Grimm s uest with magical objects tale As with the talking animal tales and the whole book these are given added weight by the slavery subtext the weak outwit the strong and escape is imperativeThe third batch feature the Devil or supernatural haunts of one kind or another I loved every one of these and could have used a dozen They are just my mix of creepiness tricksterism and fantasyThe fourth section is the most famous folk tales that are explicitly about escape from slavery The title story is the very last and also the most powerful In it there are some people who can fly but the overseers and slave owners are blind to this inner beauty In the end the slave owners are deceived by their own racism This story is also available as a stand alone picture book with full color illustrations Barenaked Jane uest with magical objects tale As with the talking animal tales and the whole book these are given added weight by the slavery subtext the weak outwit the strong and escape is imperativeThe third batch feature the Devil or supernatural haunts of one kind or another I loved every one of these and could have Carl Webers Kingpins used a dozen They are just my mix of creepiness tricksterism and fantasyThe fourth section is the most famous folk tales that are explicitly about escape from slavery The title story is the very last and also the most powerful In it there are some people who can fly but the overseers and slave owners are blind to this inner beauty In the end the slave owners are deceived by their own racism This story is also available as a stand alone picture book with full color illustrations