Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition. Bruce Jackson

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition



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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition Bruce Jackson ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Page: 264
ISBN: 9780415969970


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 in hardcover only, it quickly gained the reputation as a classic collection of Black folk poetry known as "toasts." Toasts are probably the only living form of oral narrative poetry in the U.S.; they represent a vital genre of black folklore. They come from various sources: from streetcorners to jails, from barrooms to academic halls. The toasts celebrate mythological figures from African-American culture, including the famed "bad man" Stackolee who is said to have murdered a man over a Stetson hat; the famous exploits...

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