Overview

"You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true."" So begins """"Crook-Neck Dick,"""" one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. Derived from African American legends, these fables have entertained generations of Charlestonians with sheer storytelling magic. To delight of folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story, this treasure features photos of the storytellers who shared these remarkable stories with John Bennett. Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides a foreword."

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Author:   John H. Bennett Jr ,  Julia Eichelberger
Publisher:   University of South Carolina Press
Imprint:   University of South Carolina Press
Weight:   0.279kg
ISBN:  

9781643361376

ISBN 10:   1643361376
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Remembering and Rewriting Gullah Narratives An Introductory Comment 1. The Doctor to the Dead 2. The Death of the Wandering Jew 3. Madame Margot 4. The Black Constable 5. Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital 6. All God's Chillen Had Wings 7. The Measure of Grief 8. The Enchanted Cloak 9. The Young Wife Whose Vine Meloned Beyond the Fence 10. Death and the Two Bachelors 11. When the Dead Sang in Their Graves 12. Rolling Rio and the Gray Man; Or, The Gift of Strength 13. The Remember Service 14. A Young Girl's Virtue Preserved by the Devil 15. Crook-Neck Dick 16. Louis Alexander 17. The Apothecary and The Mermaid 18. The Man Who Wouldn't Believe He Was Dead 19. Daid Aaron, I 20. Daid Aaron, II 21. Buried Treasure; Or, The Two Bold Fisherman

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A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead. --Kirkus Reviews

"A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead."" —Kirkus Reviews"

Author Information

John Bennett (1865-1956) was a novelist, artist, essayist, and poet of international acclaim who played a fundamental role in the Charleston Renaissance. His other books include the beloved children's story Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time and The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard. Julia Eichelberger is the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

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