{"product_id":"annotated-african-american-folktales","title":"ANNOTATED AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKTALES","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset's \"Negro Folk Tales from the South\" (1927), Zora Neale Hurston's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMules and Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e (1935), and Virginia Hamilton's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe People Could Fly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Annotated African American Folktales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Annotated African American Folktales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e752 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eContains approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W.W. Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50066310430957,"sku":"131066","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/6017\/5085\/files\/ANOTATEDAFRICANAMERICANFOLKTALES1.jpg?v=1780509918","url":"https:\/\/thehuntingtonstore.org\/products\/annotated-african-american-folktales","provider":"The Huntington Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}