ED 136 289 CS 203 266 AUTHOR Coughlan, Bargaret N., Comp. TITLE Folklore from Africa to the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. INSTITUT/OS Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 76 NOTE 162p-4 All illustrations have been deleted due to copyright restrictions AVAILABLE FROMSuperintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 20402 (Stock Mo. 030-001-00066-4,$11.50) EBBS PRICE NP-S0.83 BC-S8.69 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *African Culture; *African Literature; *Annotated Bibliographies; Anthropology; *Childrens Books; *Polk Culture; *Polklore Books ABSTRACT The purpose of this selectiveannotated bibliography is to reveal original sources of Africantale;and to trace their relationsktp to stories carried to tke West Indies and the American South. The storks cited are available in the collections of the Uttar, of Congress. In addition to collections of folklore, a few linguistic, ethnological, and anthropological studies and some travel accounts and government reports containing tales are included. The coalections and studies are divided into the folloming categories: sub-Saharan Africa, Vest AfricaSouthern Africa, Central Africa, Last Africa, tbe Bust aldthe United States. lack of these sections includes studies and collections for adults and collecti9ns for children. 034 Irommomm**Ippossmismistsms******************************44****************** Docusents acquired by IIIC include many inforsal unpublished * saterials not available fros other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Illevertheless, iteas of marginal* reproducibility aro often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reprodoctions ERIC makes available * via the 21IC Docusent Reprodsction Service CMS). 2V2S is not * * responsible for the quality of the original document. **productions * supplied by *DAS aro the best that cos be made fres the original. * weina 68:Z9 t 03 EV?fVP Foreword In the body of American folklore, which is both indigenous and -.elated to that of other lands, one portion is identified as having come to this country from the African continent. Richard A. Waterman and William IL Bascom point out in *AfriQtn and New World Negro Folklore (item 18o) that -surviving the drastic social changes that accompanied the forceful transplanting of African peoples into slavery on a strange continent, .. Negro folklore has persisted in the New World as a well-defined and basically homogeneous entity.** The nanative. along with the riddle. proverb,song or game, has been dominant in Negro oral literature.. Some of these black (or Afro-American) tales have become as much a part of the heritage of Atx*rican children as has chcde folk- lore derived from European sources. Most popular among then have been the animal tales revolving about Brer Rabbit and his companions. In the latter balf of the 19th century a paternalistic interest was shown by missionaries to Africaand soon after by civil servants. linittists, and ethnologistsin recording African tales in their many original languages and theNranslating them into English. French, German, and other languages of the colonial powers. The intent was to preserve the tales -in the name of progress and ciiilization- (see item 105) and to enable study that would promote an understanding of the peoples by the white man and also provide textbook reading matter in African languages for use by non-African govern- ment workers as well as by Africans. It is recognized, however, that there is no complete collection of mythical tales repre- senting any one of the thousands of African peoples. Presa-va- tion was also a motive of collectors in the West Indies and the United States. The purpose of this bibliography is to reveal original sources of African tales and to nave their relationship to stories carried to the West Indies 4nifet the American South, ineloding the Sra Islands, South Carolina, where the tales were old in the Gullah pasois. These stories were chiefly animal arid trickster tales. But as it developed, black American 4 folklore was to include not only these tales, dearly related to Africa, but also tall stories and others which came to be told about black American folk heroes, I.M.e John Henry, Daddy Mention, and the slave John. The following entries, composing a selective rather than a comprehensive bil:diography, descrilae works available in the collections of the Library of Congress. For the most part, theY cite collections of folklore, but a few linguistic, ethnological, and anthropological studies and some travel accounts and government reports containing tales are also inciwied The titles were cefreted because they shed lien on the cultures out of which the tales arose and are fruitful sources for retellings for children. The geographical arrangement brings items to- gether in four major African land areasWest, South, Cen- tral, and Eastpreceded by an opening section on. general works and followed by sections on the West Indies and the United States. The bibliography is limited to English-language works except for a few French-language items for Africa and the West Indies. Criteria for inclusion of collections for children are the citation of printed sources where possffile, faithful treatment of cultural backgrounds, and a style approximating the origi- nal in directness and simplicity, if not in starkness. In some instances the annotations indicate inappropriate style and distorted adaptation, such as the deliberate softening of inci- dent and characterization to make a storr palatable to other cultures. Single-tale picture books are excluded as main en- tries Imt in a few cases have been cited in notes for longer works. Call numbers indicate location of the items in the Lalvary of Congress collections. "Micro" is the designation for location in the Microform Reading Room. The Chrldren's Book Section acknowledges with gxatitude the assistance of specialists in the African SegtiOn fox the identification of proper forms of names of peopies kild geo- graphical areas. Virginia Haviland Head, Children's Book Section 4 Foreword Acknowledgments SUB-SAHARAN AFRIC". Studies and Bffiliographies Collections for Adults Collections for Children 8 WEST AFRICA 13 Stinnes and Collections for Adults 13 Collections for Children 35 SOUTHERN AFRICA 51 Stutries and Collections far Adults 51 Collections for Children 63 CENTRAL AFRICA 69 Studies and Collections for Adults 69 Collections for Children 75 EAST AFRICA 81 Studies and Collections for Adults 81 Collections for Children 92 THE WEST INDIES 103 Studies and Collections for Adults 103 Collections for Children 115 THE UNITED STATES 123 Studies and Collections for Adults 124 Collections for Children 146 133 Illustrations on the title page: the fox and the baboon areby Christine Price, from Singing Tales of Africa by AdjaiRob- inson, text copyright 0 1974 Adjai Robinson,illustrations copyright 0 1974 Christine Price, used bypermission of Charles Scribner's Sons; the rabbit as well as thtturtle which appears at the beginning of eachchapter are from The Ox of the Wonderful Horns, and Other African Folktales by Ashley Bryan, copyright @ 1971. by Ashley Bryan, used bypermission of Atheneum Publishers.. The illustration on page xii by Crisha Dotzenko,front Ajrican Folk Tales by Charlotte and Wolf Leslau, copyright 401963 by the Peter Pauper Press, is reproduced bypermission of Peter Pauper Press. The illustration on page 6 by Kale Marr, fromAfrican Gene- sis by Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox, copyright 1937by Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox, is reproducedby permis- sion of Stackpole Books. The illustration on page 9 is from The Ox of theWonderful Horns, and Other African Folktaks by AshleyBryan, copy- right @ 1971 by Ashley Bryan and used by permission of Atheneum Publishers. The illustration on page 15 by Larry Lurin, from Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes by Harold Courlander, 0 1973 by Harold Couriander, is used by permission of Crown Pub- Ushers, Inc The illustrations on pages 21 and 35 by lb Ohlsson, from Tales for the Third Ear, From Equatorial Africa by Verna Aardema, text copyright 0 1969 by Verna Aardema, illustra- tions copyrighi 1969 by lb Ohlsson, and that on page 97 by Christine Price, from The Rich Man and the Singer; Folktaks from Ethiopia by Mesfin Habte-Marimn, edited and copyright 0 19p by Christine Price, are used by permission of E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. The illustrations on pages 24-25 and 4 4 from Tales of Mogho; African Stories From Upper Volta by Frederic Guirma, copy- right 0 1971, Frederic Guirma and that on page 43 from Guirma's Princess of the Full Moon, translated by John Gar- reu, copyright @ ig7o Frederic Guinna and Jo im _Garrett,. are used by permission of Macmillan Publicbing Co., Inc. The Hausa writing on page 30 from Hausa FolkiLore, Cus- toms, Proverbs, Etc., voL 1 by Robert Sutherland -Rattray, is used by permission of The Clarendon Press, Oxford. The illustration on page 32 by Ademola Olugebefola, from Fourteen Hundred Cowries, and Other Afrkan Tales collected by Abayomi Fuja, text copyright 2962 by Oxford 'Univer- sity Press, illustratioos'comight 0 1971 by Ademola Olugebe- fob, is used by permission of Lotlirop, Lee Se Shepard Company. The illustration on page 36 by Gregorio Prestopino, from Sundiata: The Epic of the Lion King by Roland Berwl,copy- right 0 197o by Roland Bertol, illustrations copyright @ 1970 by Gregorio Prestopino; those on pages 98 and 99 by Leo and Diane DflIon, from W. Moses Senvadda's Songs and Stories From Uganda, transcribed and edited by Hewitt Pantaleoni, copYright 0 1974 by W. Moses Serwadth and Hewitt Pantale- oni, illustrations copyright 0 1974 by Leo and Diane Dillon; and that on pageii4 by Marcia Brown, from Anansi, the spi- der Man; Jamaican Folk Tales by Philip M. Sherlock, copy- right 1954 by Philip M. Sherlock, are all used by permission of Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Inc The woodcut on page 49 by Helen Siegl, from The Dancing Palm Tree, and Other Nigerian Folltiales by Barbara Walker, text copyright x968 by Barbara Walker, illustrations copy- right r968 by Helen Siegl, is used by permission of Parents' Magazine Press.