With Aesop Along the Black Border

Title

en_US With Aesop Along the Black Border

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Black Dialect

en_US First edition in book form

en_US Ambrose E. Gonzales

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:50Z

en_US 1994-03

en_US 1924

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1924

Abstract

en_US An excellent, delightful, challenging presentation of some sixty Aesopic fables in strong Black dialect. The sampling I tried (five fables) took time but made wonderful reading, especially as one gets the hang of the pronunciation. These fables elaborate significantly. They may even lose some of the punch of surprise as they develop many of the story's details. So the grapes are very ripe in FG, the fox and stork do their thinking out loud before the guest appears, and the two women being considered for marriage want much different things from the man. That fable, 2W (149), seems to me to be typical. There is a long figure about how deep one has to plow with each woman. Taking two women was the man's first mistake; taking two of different ages was the second. One wants dancing and the other liniment! As the story moves along, the younger woman notices him going white fast. The introduction is curious, to say the least. For Gonzales, the Negro has a racial contempt for the truth (X). This seems to me a strange way to describe a gift for exaggeration. I think the racism grows stronger when he explains himself on XI. Against those who assume that the Black saw in the Rabbit and the weaker creatures the poor slave forced to resort to cunning and lying to protect himself, Gonzales argues But the slave brought these myths from Africa, whence, also he brought his race characteristics! T of C on VII. These stories first appeared in The State.

Identifier

en_US 1847 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77413

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The State Company

en_US Columbia, SC

Subject

en_US GR103 .G65 1924 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole