Get your ass in the water and swim like me : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition / / Bruce Jackson
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| Autore: |
Jackson Bruce
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| Titolo: |
Get your ass in the water and swim like me : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition / / Bruce Jackson
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| Pubblicazione: | [Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans |
| American poetry - African American authors | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Telling 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Get your ass in the water and swim like me |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910476803003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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