Aesop: Tales of Aethiop the African, Volume II

Title

en_US Aesop: Tales of Aethiop the African, Volume II

Description

en_US Signed

en_US By Jamal Koram the StoryMan

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Muhammad, Thandiwe

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:08Z

en_US 2001-02

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US I got this signed copy of Volume II along with a signed copy of Volume I (1989) on Ebay. See my comments there and on the first printing of the first edition in the same year. Here are twenty-five fables with an introduction before and a glossary after the stories. There are ten black-and-white illustrations, ranging from over half-a-page to a full-page in size. Perhaps the best of them is a fine silhouette presentation of MSA (53). The introduction reproduces the introduction of the latest version of the first volume, but drops references to a once-planned third volume and to the illustrations of the text. It highlights the characters about to appear in this volume. The dialect makes for enjoyable reading, right down to the surprising copastetic (7). AL becomes Nehuti and the Bear (9), though it is still set in the time of the Greeks and Romans. The source of the voice telling the traveler to move his wagon himself is never identified (19). Instead of a dolphin, we get a camel carrying a monkey (25). Kolobahn is Dakar's market. Does the story work if the camel asks Have you seen Kolobahn there lately? Do you know him? The jump at Rhodes has become a slam-dunk in Kano (27)! The Lion in Love is transformed into Juma Loses His Locks (36), in which Juma gets new clothes, removes his beard and moustache, and gives up his dred locks for love, only to come up unsatisfactory in the eyes of his sweetheart's father because he is a storyteller. Br'er Wolf and His Cousin (42) combines DW and TMCM. The rooster who finds a diamond ring rejects it partly for a new reason: Every time I'd look at it, I'd be thinking about the pain and suffering African people are going through to pull precious baubles from deep within the earth (48). The glossary is on 56-70. We still get Jamal Koram's name after almost every individual fable.

Identifier

en_US 1877610089 (v. 2)

en_US 3665 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79019

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Sea Island Information Group

en_US Beltsville, MD

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.K67 Ae 1989

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole