Author: Albert Henry StoddardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780964156678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Folktales or myths in English and Gullah.
Gullah Animal Tales from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina
Author: Albert Henry StoddardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780964156678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Folktales or myths in English and Gullah.
Gullah Culture in America
Author: Wilbur CrossPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 156720712X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, weaving, and the arts. This book explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast. The first published evidence of Gullah went almost unrecorded until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way, even as the Civil War was at its height, to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish a small institution called Penn School to help freed slaves learn how to read and write and make a living in a world of upheaval and distress. There they noticed that most of the islanders spoke a language that was only part English, tempered with expressions and idioms, often spoken in a melodious, euphonic manner, accompanied by distinctive practices in religion, work, dancing, greetings, and the arts. The homogeneity, richness, and consistency of this culture was possible because the sea-islanders were isolated. Even today, there are more than 300,000 Gullah people, many of whom speak little or no English, living in the remoter areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuskie, and Cumberland. Gullah Culture in America explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture today to show what it's like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this remarkable and uniquely American community.
Low Country Gullah Culture, Special Resource Study
Author: Remembering the Way it Was
Author: Fran Heyward MarscherPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162584400X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
From cooking coon and possum to recalling the heyday of Melrose Plantation, these are the heartwarming stories of Hilton Head, Bluffton and Daufuskie before, as the Gullahs might say, it all change up. In this second volume of personal memories collected by Hilton Head journalist Fran Heyward Marscher, area old-timers tell of the adventures, the industry and the heart of the Lowcountry itself. Before the golf courses and resorts, the residents of Beaufort and Jasper Counties often scraped to make a living, but they left behind stories of enduring devotion and perseverance. Keeping lighthouses on the coast, developing a method for catching crabs with only sticks and hunting quail in Hilton Head are only a few of the tales preserved by local old-timers from the early days of the twentieth century to the times of economic transition after World War II. In ice cream and butter beans, picking oysters and exploring the beach, these memories of the Lowcountry will last for generations.
South Carolina Field Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture
Author: Reading Africa into American Literature
Author: Keith CartwrightPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189942
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian/Old Mali region of Africa. Reading epics, fables, and gothic tales from the crossroads of this region and the American South, he reveals that America's foundational African presence, along with a complex set of reactions to it, is an integral but unacknowledged source of the national culture, identity, and literature.
LC Folk Archive Finding Aid
Author: Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The News-letter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Author: Society for the Study of Southern LiteraturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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