Storytellers: Folktales & Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

As educators strive to improve the teaching of history, they could turn to no better resource than Storytellers. --Journal of American History Lovers of tall tales will love being lost in Storytellers. . . . A rich affirmation of our storytelling heritage. Who can resist 'two-hundred sixty of the South's best stories'? --New Orleans Times-Picayune You don't have to be from the South to appreciate the down-home, backwoods humor of this wonderful book. . . . Whether you're a rebel or a Yankee, the atmosphere created by Storytellers is one of hospitality. --Charlotte Observer [The stories] testify to the enormously rich vein of imagination and humor of this area. . . . Storytellers makes fine, enjoyable reading. Its best influence might be to inspire readers to remember stories of their own. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse as the tellers themselves. Edited and introduced by John A.Burrison and selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students, ""Storytellers"" brings together a broad variety of tales told in voices of African-American, Anglo-Saxon, and native American descent. The work speaks of the South - not one South but many a region whose diversity is revealed and preserved in the telling of tales. Presented in a standard-sized format, this affordable paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the earlier clothbound edition.