Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast
by Ambrose E. Gonzales
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Author: Ambrose E. GonzalesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-12-31
ISBN: 1565544447
Number of pages: 350
Publisher: Firebird Press
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Book Review: Good collection, but....
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very good early collection of stories done in the Gullah vernacular commonly found among Blacks in the Charleston SC-Savannah Ga. area. However, Gonzales did his job a bit too well in that his phonetic recitations of these tales are almost indecipherable to those not famimiar with the dialect. Folklorists may also be interested to know that some of these tales make reappearances in Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus" tales (which came out at around the same time, so it may be the other way around) and some forty years later in the collections of the Black folklorist Zora Neale Hurston. But either way, if you have the patience, give it a try. BUT BE WARNED-Once you get the flow of the dialougue, these stories were written from a very patronizing point of view in the early 1900s and the politically correct may want to take some heart medicine before reading this.
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