MOTHER WIT FROM THE LAUGHING BARREL: Readings in the Interpretation…

MOTHER WIT FROM THE LAUGHING BARREL: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. by Dundes, Alan, editor. < >

MOTHER WIT FROM THE LAUGHING BARREL: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, (1973). First edition - Selections which deal with race pride and jokes,the blues, the Ku Klux Klan and Brer Rabbit and much more. Contributions by Zora Neale Hurston, Howard Odum, Eldredge Cleaver, A. Philip Randolph, Bernard Wolfe, Langston Hughes, John Lovell Jr., Alan Lomax and many others. Suggestions for further reading. xiv, 673 pp. ISBN: 0-136030017.

Condition: Good overall in dark brown glossy wrappers - toning to pages, some wear to covers, lower corner bumped.

Book ID: 82283
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