San Antonio College Library

"Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout she interweaves English translations of Malagasy stories of heroism and morality, royalty and commoners, love and revenge, and the...

"Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche. Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and...

Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, s.

In this anthology, "A Treasure of Afro-American Folklore", Harold Courlander brings together oral traditions of black communities in the Western Hemisphere and demonstrates the powerful cultural influence on Africa on this side of the Atlantic. Afro-American folklore includes a wide array of orally transmitted traditions of the numerous, sometimes disparate, Negro cultures of the New World. Among these traditions are tales of scoundrels, heroes, rollicking...

"New, modern English translation of the folk tales collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, which was first published in Norway in 1841, and a second edition in 1852"--

This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time of adventure and enchantment. It will delight fans of fairytales and ghost stories, and captivate those interested in Japan's rich history and culture.

A collection of traditional stories from different parts of Africa, featuring varied characters and themes--some familiar, some newer.

A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here. Accompanying the stories are Zenani's detailed commentaries and analyses and Scheub's striking photographs of her in performance....

A collection of Scottish folk tales featuring silkies, the seal people who can take human shape.