The Black Cloth,9780870235573

The Black Cloth

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ISBN13: 9780870235573
ISBN10: 0870235575
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

A collection of 16 retold African folktales many involving the trickster spider, Anansi.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Es'kia Mphahlele
Translator's Preface xiii
The Mirror of Dearth
3(9)
The Black Cloth
12(5)
The Pitcher
17(11)
Spider's Hump
28(8)
L'Enfant Terrible
36(7)
Spider's Ox
43(9)
Spider and the Tortoise
52(10)
Mother Iguana's Funeral
62(9)
The Pig's Snout
71(11)
The Hunter and the Boa
82(9)
The Sacred Cow
91(8)
The Bat's Relations
99(5)
The Yam Field
104(11)
The Dowry
115(9)
Spider and His Son
124(8)
The Man Who Wanted to Be King
132(7)
Other Works 139
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