When Robert Weil, the editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, approached Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar with the idea of putting together “The Annotated African American Folktales ...
A lecturer at a college university in England accused a beloved children’s book author of stealing stories from African slaves. On May 19, Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall from Leeds Beckett University ...
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Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...