JUMP UP AND SAY
JUMP UP AND SAY1995
About this book
Jump Up and Say! features more than seventy stories about the wide range of the Black experience, including traditional tales from Africa and the West Indies. Collected here are family stories and moral fables, ghost stories and tales rich in humor, as well as raps and rhymes, memoirs and songs, and stories and poems about freedom, protest, and change. In this collection, voices spanning centuries, continents, and cultures blend to celebrate the African-American storytelling tradition.
Details
- First published
- 1995
- OL Work ID
- OL3529019W
Subjects
American Short storiesAfrican AmericansAfrican American authorsFictionAmerican fictionShort stories, americanAmerican fiction, african american authorsAfrican americans, fictionAfrican americans, folkloreStorytellingCollections