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Title Get your ass in the water and swim like me : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition / [compiled by] Bruce Jackson
Published New York : Routledge, ©2004

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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
head
sex
offender
singer
tales
black
pimps
voodoo
queen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Folk poetry, American.
Toasts (African American folk poetry)
Narrative poetry, American.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Oral tradition -- United States.
African Americans -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
African Americans
American poetry -- African American authors
Folk poetry, American
Narrative poetry, American
Oral tradition
Toasts (African American folk poetry)
Lyrik
Mündliche Überlieferung
United States
Schwärze
USA
Genre/Form poetry.
Folk poetry
Poetry
Folk poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie populaire.
Poésie.
Anthologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
LC no. 2020690974
ISBN 9781135879280
1135879281
0203323319
9780203323311
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9781280216527
9786610216529
6610216525
9781135879242
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9781135879297
113587929X