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Unit V
Oral Traditions: Swapping Stories
Resources
Find resources helpful
for Unit V lessons below. Specific resources are also listed in individual
lessons. More resources may be found online in the Louisiana
Folklife Recommended Reading List and the Louisiana Folklife Bibliography. Resources marked with an asterisk (*) are
available from the CARTS Catalog, 800/333-5982, or order online.
- Abrahams,
Roger D. Deep Down in the Jungle, Aldine Publishing, 1970.
A good teacher source for studying the folk hero Shine and other
vernacular African American oral traditions.
- Alvarez,
Louis and Andrew Kolker. Yeah, You Rite! Center for New
American Media, 1984. Video. Presents a linguistic tour of New
Orleans dialects in various parts of the city and discusses the
social function of language and the cultural ramifications of
the differences.
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean. Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition
of South Louisiana. Garland Publishing, 1994. The largest,
most diverse collection of Louisiana folktales ever published,
this book includes the original tale in Cajun French or Creole
and an English translation.
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean. "Talking Pascal in Mamou: A Study in Folkloric
Competence." Journal of the Folklore Institute. Vol.
17, 1980, pp. 1-24.
- Armistead,
Samuel G. Spanish Décimas from St. Bernard Parish,
LFC C-088, recording of Irvan Perez singing décimas and
notes available from the Louisiana
Folklife Center, $10.
- Aarne,
Antti and Stith Thompson. The Types of the Folktale. 2nd
ed., Indiana University Press, 1995. A follow-up to Thompson's
encyclopedic Motif Index of Folk Literature, which classifies
the world's traditional oral and written stories into an easily
understood system of narrative elements or motifs.
- Blatt,
Gloria T., ed. Once Upon a Folktale: Capturing the Folklore
Process with Children. Teachers College Press, 1993. Twelve
authors share their use of folklore in elementary and middle
school classrooms. Includes suggestions for drawing on students'
family and community folklore and explores the darker side of
some folklore such as inherent racism and nationalism, $19.95.*
- Bosma,
Betty. Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, and Myths: Using Folk
Literature in Your Classroom. Ideas for studying folk literature
through drama, art, storytelling music, puppetry, and improvisation.
Includes key to regional Native tribes and their tricksters and
a guide to recommended folk literature, $15.59.*
- Brunvand,
Jan Harold. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends
and Their Meaning. Norton, 1981. This, the first of several
popular collections by Brunvand, explores how the bizarre and
fantastic elements that once entered our lives through tales
and ballads live on in urban legends, $11.95.*
- Brunvand,
Jan Harold, ed. The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story.
University of Illinois Press, 1999, $23.*
- Burrison,
John. Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South.
University of Georgia Press, 1991. Like Swapping Stories,
this book offers a broad array of contemporary folktale genres,
mostly from Georgia.
- Cantú,
Norma. Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera.
UNM Press, 1995, $12. A folklorist and English professor, the
author uses family photos as starting points for writing family
stories and personal experience narratives.
- Clayton,
Lawrence A., et al. De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of
Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543, 2 Vols.,
University of Alabama Press, 1993. Resource for European and
American perspectives on encounters with Louisiana Indians.
- Cooper,
Patsy. When Stories Come to School: Telling, Writing and Performing
Stories in the Early Childhood Classroom. Teachers and Writers
Collaborative, 1993. Early childhood teacher resource for encouraging
children to tell and perform their own stories, $15.95.*
- Coushatta
Tribe of Louisiana. Red Shoes' People:
A History of the Sovereign
Nation of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. 1992. Contact
P.O. Box 818, Elton, LA 70532.
- de
Caro, Frank. Folklife in Louisiana Photography: Images of
Tradition. LSU Press, 1991. Survey of the relationship between
documentary photography and folklife in Louisiana from the last
half of the 19th century to the present, $24.95.
- Dickinson,
Samuel Dorris, New Travels in North America by Jean-Bernard
Bossu, 1770- 1771. Northwestern State University Press, 1982.
Dobie,
J. Frank. The Ben Lilly Legend, Little Brown, 1950.
- Doucet,
Sharon Arms. Why Lapin's Ears Are Long and Other Tales from
the Louisiana Bayou. Orchard Books, 1997. David Catrow illustrated
this lively adaptation of Compère Lapin tales.
The Cajun and Creole variant on the trickster Brer Rabbit, $18.95.
- Duggleby,
John. Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence. Illustrated
with the paintings of Jacob Lawrence. Chronicle, 1998, grades
4-8, $16.95. Stories of 20th century African American experiences,
from the Harlem Renaissance to civil rights rallies, are presented
through Lawrence's paintings.
- Flores,
Dan L., ed. Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration: The
Freeman & Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of
1806. University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.
- Goss,
Linda and Marian Barnes. Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American
Storytelling. Touchstone, 1989. Many examples of oral histories,
family stories, ghost stories, raps, rhymes, $14.*
- Hamilton,
Virginia. A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from North America,
the West Indies, and Africa. Blue Sky, 1997, $19.95, grades
K-4. Eleven trickster tales eloquently retold and garnished with
luminous and humorous watercolors.
- Hamilton,
Virginia. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales,
and True Tales. Scholastic, 1995. A wide array of heroines
illustrate family heroes, historical legends, tall tales, fairy
tales, why stories, $19.95.
- Hamilton,
Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales.
Random, 1987. Retellings include Brer Rabbit and John the slave
trickster, $13.*
- Holloway,
Joseph E., ed. Africanisms in American Culture. Indiana
University Press, 1990. "Introduction: The Origins of African
American Culture," by Holloway, pp. ix-18; "African
Elements in African American English," by Molefi Kete Asante,
pp. 19-33; and "Africanisms and the Study of Folklore,"
by Beverly Robinson, pp. 211-224.
- Hunter,
Clementine and Mary Lyons. Talking With Tebe: Clementine Hunter,
Memory Artist. Houghton Mifflin, 1998, grades 4-8, $16. As
much about folklife of a Creole community in northwest Louisiana
as about painting, Lyons acts as editor, quoting extensively
from taped interviews and articles so that the artist speaks
in her own voice.
- Hurston,
Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Harper Collins, 1990. This
collection is from the African American folklorist's 1929 fieldwork
in Florida and Louisiana, $13.50.*
- Jones,
Bessie and Bess Lomax Hawes. Step It Down. Harper &
Row, 1972. Collection of African American children's folklore
for teachers and K-8, $14.95, cassette, $9.98.*
- Klipple,
May A. African Folk-Tales with Foreign Analogues. Garland
Publishing, 1991.
- Kolker,
Andy and Louis Alverez. El Mosco y el Agua Alta (Mosquitos
and High Water). Center for New Media, 1983. This video looks
at the history and culture of the Canary Islands descendants
of St. Bernard Parish, particularly on the role of Isleño
décimas in the community. Spanish with subtitles. Available from Center for New American Media, PO Box 53163, New Orleans, LA 70153.
- Lester,
Julius. John Henry. Dial Books, 1994. Jerry Pinkney illustrated
this retelling of the African American folk hero's life, $16.99.*
- Levine,
Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American
Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. Oxford University Press,
1977. A historian employs folklore to analyze African American
history and thought in this vital, highly readable teacher resource,
which analyzes many types of oral narrative.
- Lindahl,
Carl, Maida Owens, and C. Renée Harvison, eds. Swapping
Stories: Folktales from Louisiana. University Press of Mississippi
in association with Louisiana Division of the Arts, 1997. Order hardbacks copies
from the Press, 3825 Ridgewood Rd., Jackson, MS 39211, 800/737-7788,
$45 plus $5 for shipping and handling for first book and $0.75 for each additional book. Order paperbacks from bookstores. A video (see Owens, Maida, below) and website are also available. Some stories are online.
- Moore,
Elizabeth. Louisiana Indian Tales, 1990. Collection of
old and new legends about the Louisiana Indians, including "The
City of the Sun" and "The Waters of Life," $14.95.
- Moore,
Patricia, "Growing Up Southern: An Interdisciplinary Project
Exploring Family Stories Based on Selected Works of Art by Benny
Andrews," Art Education, Vol. 52, no. 1, January
1999, pp. 25-31, available from National Art Education Association,
703/836-8000, $9.
- Morris, Oradel Nolen. I Hear the
Song of the Houmas/J'Entends La Chanson Des Houmas. Paupieres Publishing Co., Houma, LA,
1992.
- Owens,
Maida and Pat Mire. Swapping Stories: Folktales from
Louisiana. Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 1998.
Companion 30-minute video to the publication. Available from
LPB, 7733 Perkins Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70810, 800/973-7246, $19.95,
postage included.
- Riquelmy,
Christina, ed. Documenting Selected Louisiana Ethnic Groups:
A Theme Issue of LLA Bulletin. 1994, Vol. 57, no. 1.
- Roach,
Susan. The Arts of Sarah Albritton. Louisiana Tech University,
1998, available from University Press of Mississippi, 3825 Ridgewood
Rd., Jackson, MS 39211, 800/737-7788, $15. Her dramatic paintings
illustrate the life story of a remarkable North Louisiana folk
artist.
- Simons,
Elizabeth. Student Worlds, Student Words: Teaching Writing
Through Folklore. Heinemann, 1990. A teacher and folklorist,
Simons offers background and detailed lesson plans for writing
and folklore studies, including games and play, family folklore.
Invaluable resource for all disciplines and grade levels. If
you can afford only one book, this is it, $23.*
- Sunstein, Bonnie and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater.
FieldWorking: Reading and Writing
Research. Prentice Hall, 2002. This teacher resource provides
excellent exercises to aid students' fieldwork, observation,
and writing skills. Good extension of Elizabeth Simons' Student
Worlds, Student Words.*
- Stouff,
Emile. A Chitimacha Notebook. Lafayette Natural History
Museum, 1987. Writings of the last
Chitimacha chief. 637 Girard Park Dr., Lafayette, LA 70503.
- Toelken,
Barre. The Dynamics of Folklore. Utah State University
Press, 1996. A good general college text useful for teachers
and older students.
- Wigginton,
Elliot. The Foxfire Book. Doubleday, 1972. The original
book, which generated many community collection projects, $15.95.*
- Zeitlin,
Steve, et al. A Celebration of American Family Folklore,
Pantheon, 1982. A full selection of family stories, customs,
and photos for K-12 teachers to help students start family writing,
oral history, and folklore collection projects, $11.95.*
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