Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
Annotation Originally published in 1975 and regarded as one of the great collections of African-American literature and folklore, this book brings together some of the best examples of the black folk poetry known as 'toasts' |
Analysis |
medusa's |
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head |
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sex |
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offender |
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singer |
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tales |
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black |
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pimps |
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voodoo |
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queen |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and indexes |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
Folk poetry, American.
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Toasts (African American folk poetry)
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Narrative poetry, American.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
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Oral tradition -- United States.
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African Americans -- Poetry
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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African Americans
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American poetry -- African American authors
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Folk poetry, American
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Narrative poetry, American
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Oral tradition
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Toasts (African American folk poetry)
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Lyrik
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Mündliche Überlieferung
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United States
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Schwärze
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USA
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Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Folk poetry
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Poetry
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Folk poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie populaire.
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Poésie.
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Anthologie.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
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LC no. |
2020690974 |
ISBN |
9781135879280 |
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1135879281 |
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0203323319 |
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9780203323311 |
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1280216522 |
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9781280216527 |
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9786610216529 |
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6610216525 |
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9781135879242 |
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1135879249 |
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9781135879297 |
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113587929X |
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