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Sitting at the Feet of the Past : Retelling the North American Folktale for Children, Hardback Book

Sitting at the Feet of the Past : Retelling the North American Folktale for Children Hardback

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Must a folktale be connected to its culture? Can a tale with universal applications be transmitted from one culture to another without loss?

Does a teller from one culture have the ability--or even the right--to relate a tale from another culture?

What happens to a tale when it leaves the oral and adult arenas and appears in print for children?

Is it legitimate for a reteller to create variants to suit a child audience?Children's literature is today the major conduit for folklore, and professionals in the field must consider these questions.

Editors Gary Schmidt and Donald Hettinga have brought together twenty-three writers of children's literature, illustrators, storytellers, and literary critics, who explore the issues and offer their experiences and views.

The scope of the volume is the North American folktale, a rich amalgam of four major distinct traditions: the Native American folktale, the African American folktale, the retold Western European folktale, and the American tall tale.

Each tradition is separately presented with an introductory survey and a selection of essays by the writers and critics.

This focused collection will be valuable to scholars and professions in folklore, anthropology, American literature, and children's literature and useful also as a text in courses on children's literature and folklore.

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