More than Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, Gullah folklore claims a rich cultural heritage, yet few beyond the Carolina coast know much about it. However, it is growing in both popularity and interest, as attested by recent scholarly and entertaining examinations of the dialect and stories. The author, Ambrose E. Gonzales, realized Gullah's unique appeal some seventy-odd years ago. This Gullah dialect is interesting, not merely for its richness, which falls upon the ear as opulently as the Irish brogue, he wrote, but also for the quaint and homely similes in which it abounds and for the native wit and philosophy of its users. Gonzales collected many Gullah stories with such captivating titles as The 'Wiles That in the Women Are,' Mingo the Drill Master, and Conductor Smith's Dilemma. A handy Gullah glossary is included as well, to aid the reader in interpreting the dialect. Today, Gullah is alive and well. Virginia Mixson Geraty, the world's foremost authority on Gullah and Gullah instructor at the College of Charleston, is the author of Gullah Night Before Christmas and narrator of the companion audiocassette. Both are published by Pelican.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Good collection, but....,
By Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast (Paperback)
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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Gullah culture classic,
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This review is from: Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast (Paperback)
This book is a classic of Gullah culture. I've been looking for a copy ever since I taught at an historical Black college in Savannah, GA, five years ago and was introduced first hand to Gullah.
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Joe Fields was the most onery looking darkey on Pon Pon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ebbuh sence, fuh ride, locus pastuh, nebbuh yeddy, fuh eat, seddown een, same lukkuh, git een, fuh pit, gone een, fuh hab, fuh tek, fuh tell, fuh ketch, dem foot, dey een, fuh git, duh look, come een, tuh dat, coast negroes, dry drought, duck shot, kin git, trial justice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buh Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Buh Wolf, Buh Mule, South Carolina, Mistuh Jokok, Buh Hawss, Mass Clinch, Pon Pon, Buh Izick, John Henry, Caw Caw Swamp, Dower House, Great Gawd, Adams Run, Mistuh Chair, Izick Puhshay, Devil's Fiddle, Joe Fields, Mistuh Muffey, New Yawk, W'ite Hall, Bonny Hall, Bucksley County New!
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Joe Fields was the most onery looking darkey on Pon Pon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ebbuh sence, fuh ride, locus pastuh, nebbuh yeddy, fuh eat, seddown een, same lukkuh, git een, fuh pit, gone een, fuh hab, fuh tek, fuh tell, fuh ketch, dem foot, dey een, fuh git, duh look, come een, tuh dat, coast negroes, dry drought, duck shot, kin git, trial justice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buh Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Buh Wolf, Buh Mule, South Carolina, Mistuh Jokok, Buh Hawss, Mass Clinch, Pon Pon, Buh Izick, John Henry, Caw Caw Swamp, Dower House, Great Gawd, Adams Run, Mistuh Chair, Izick Puhshay, Devil's Fiddle, Joe Fields, Mistuh Muffey, New Yawk, W'ite Hall, Bonny Hall, Bucksley County New!
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- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (Penguin Classics) by Joel Chandler Harris in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit: From the Collected Stories of Joel Chandler Harris by David Borgenicht in Front Matter, and page 346
- Tar Baby by Joel Chandler Harris in Front Matter, and page 340
- Georgia Scenes (Southern Classics Series) by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in Front Matter
- Nights with Uncle Remus (Penguin Classics) by Joel Chandler Harris in Front Matter
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- Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro by Newbell Niles PH. D. Puckett on 11 pages
- The Gullah People and Their African Heritage by William S. Pollitzer on 4 pages
- A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston by Stephanie E. Yuhl on page 115, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Names (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 13) by Joey Lee Dillard on page 76, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher) by Patricia Jones-Jackson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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