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 | | Antisemitism in European Folklore | | by balisunset, Sep 14, 2008 | | There is a long tradition of Antisemitism in European folklore. To understand it, one must look first to the legend rather than to the folktale or fairy tale, though Antisemitism certainly makes its appearance even here, as folk beliefs permeate every aspect of so-called folk wisdom. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Aladdin | | by balisunset, Sep 2, 2008 | | Aladdin is the title character of “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,” one of the best known and most often adapted tales of the Arabian Nights. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The Form of African Folktales | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | Scholars such as Melville and Frances Herskovits, Ruth Finnegan, and Isidore Okpewho have critiqued the application of Eurocentric models of interpretation to African folklore and folktales, but the critiques have rarely been accompanied by more positive methodologies. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The Performance Art of African Tales and Stories | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | The classic African performance context, described by many nineteenth-century observers, is of course the family fireside at night, when an older adult may relate a series of tales, or the different members of the audience may make their own contributions. The audience would extend beyond a nuclear family. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Content and Themes of African Stories | | by balisunset, Aug 28, 2008 | | For centuries, Aesop was the first African storyteller of record (until earlier Egyptian folktales were discovered and translated), and since his time the realm of animal fable has seemed peculiarly African. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Early Collections on African Folktales | | by balisunset, Aug 28, 2008 | | The systematic collection of African folktales began in the nineteenth century, as Christian missionaries, and later colonial administrators and travelers, began to penetrate African societies, to learn the languages, and to record their observations of the cultures they encountered. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | A Guide on African American Stories and Tales | | by balisunset, Aug 28, 2008 | | African American folktales provide some of the strongest evidence for African cultural continuities in the New World. The majority of tales on both sides of the Black Atlantic are animal trickster tales, which focus of the breaking of friendship or family norms by an asocial comic figure. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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