The Days When the Animals Talked.

Title

en_US The Days When the Animals Talked.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Signed by the author

en_US William J. Faulkner

Creator

en_US Faulkner, William J. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Howell, Troy

Date

2016-01-25T16:13:42Z

en_US 1994-09

en_US 1977

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:13:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1977

Abstract

en_US I learned more from this book than its good fables. I learned that the great American author is William Harrison Faulkner. The book has a clear ethnic agenda, signalled in the cover's giving black hands to Brer Rabbit and white hands to Brer Wolf. Fable motifs and material play frequently through the twenty-two folktales in Part II of the book. Brer Possum and Brer Snake (99) is a combination of the Aesopic Frozen Snake and The Brahmin and the Caged Tiger. It has a great moral: Don't you ever trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! Brer Rabbit and Brer Cooter Race (132) is the Aesopic TH but with the hedgehog twist, namely, that all those in one species look alike to those of other species. Brer Rabbit Rescues His Children (168) has the motif of tracks going in but not coming out. There are three planting tales with strong fable elements (102, 106, 110). The respective tricks in the three are eating the peanuts (like the monkey with the cat) instead of planting them, agreeing to give the tops, and agreeing to give tops and bottoms. How the Cow Went Under the Ground (152) is not only a good fable; it illustrates well the motif of repression that Faulkner, himself a Black, finds frequent in these stories. Other good stories, though not fables, in this section include Brer Tiger and the Big Wind (89) and Brer Rabbit Keeps His Word (95).

Identifier

en_US 695807552

en_US 2058 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77619

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Follett

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.F235 Day 1977 See all items with this value

en_US Faulkner See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole