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Literary friendships are themselves legend-often as fascinating and as melodramatic as the literary productions of the writers: Christ and John, Johnson and Boswell, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron and Shelley, Hawthorne and Melville, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Hughes and Bontemps, Hughes and Hurston, Wright and Baldwin, King and Abernathy, Morrison and Bambara, Ginsburg and Totenberg. These friends often inspired, supported, informed, guided, ...

Daryl Cumber Dance, legendary teacher, celebrated genealogist, applauded literary scholar, and famed folklorist (often dubbed "The Dean of American Folklore"), has achieved renown for her classic studies and collections such as Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans, Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans, Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore, Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliograph...

There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother.

There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother.

The vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold and unique collection that the "Miami Herald" has described as "breathtakingly broad and deep".

..". a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty.... cogentintroduction(s)... confirm the central point of the tales: a search for culturalidentity and freedom. First-rate." -- LibraryJournal ..". deserves a place alongside the classiccollection of Negro tales, Mules and Men. Folktales are the stories people tell, andShuckin' and Jivin' presents a splendid representative sheaf of the stories blackAmericans of all social classes tell today....