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200 10$aGet your ass in the water and swim like me $eAfrican American narrative poetry from oral tradition /$fBruce Jackson
210  1$a[Place of publication not identified] :$cTaylor & Francis,$d2004.
215   $a1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages)
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327   $aTelling and learning toasts -- Functions and themes: violence, sex, and the failure of romance -- Pimps and their ladies: insult and reputation -- Badman and trickster: functional outsiders -- Shine and the Titanic: goodbye to Charlie -- Beyond poetry -- Badmen, crime, and jail -- Pimps, whores, and other lovers and friends -- Freaks and supersex -- Signifying and poolshooting monkey -- The Titanic toasts -- Miscellaneous narratives -- Short versus and drinking toasts.
330   $a"Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" is considered one of the great, classic collections of African-American literature and folklore. Originally published by in 1974, it quickly gained the reputation as a classic collection of black folk poetry. This book will delight students of African-American culture and folklore, and anyone who enjoys the double entendres and hidden meanings found in the oral tradition, from its African roots to contemporary rap.
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