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JUMP UP AND SAY (1995)

JUMP UP AND SAY (1995)

African American Fiction Fairy Tales & Folklore Short Stories

Linda Goss

Year: 1995
Authors: Linda Goss
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Jump Up and Say! features more than seventy stories about the wide range of the Black experience, including traditional tales from Africa and the West Indies. Collected here are family stories and moral fables, ghost stories and tales rich in humor, as well as raps and rhymes, memoirs and songs, and stories and poems about freedom, protest, and change. In this collection, voices spanning centuries, continents, and cultures blend to celebrate the African-American storytelling tradition.