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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good collection, but....,
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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.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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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Black Border, The: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast by Ambrose E. Gonzales (Paperback - December 31, 1999)
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