The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales
10 best books like The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales (Diane Wolkstein): Haiti Noir, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Swedish Folktales and Legends, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, American Indian Trickster Tales, Voodoo in Haiti, Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 1936070650 |
Launched with the summer ’04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Featuring...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0375804714 |
The young woman lifted one foot in the air. Then the other. She flew clumsily at first, with the child now held tightly in her arms. Then she felt the magic, the African mystery. Say she rose just as free as a bird. As light as a feather.
This cherished image of escape from slavery is one of the most...
| Author | Lone Thygesen Blecher |
| ISBN | 0816645752 |
Swedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative collection of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from the ribald to the romantic, from the rustic to the mythical, these are lively translations of 150 tales drawn from unique sources including the Swedish...
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0375702679 |
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
| Author | Vance Randolph |
| ISBN | 0252013646 |
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman,...
American Indian Trickster Tales
| Author | Richard Erdoes |
| ISBN | 0140277714 |
Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest,...
| Author | Alfred Métraux |
| ISBN | 0805208941 |
Voodoo in Haiti is a masterwork of observation and description by one of the most distinguished anthropologists of the twentieth century. Alfred Métraux (1902–1963) has written a rich and lasting study of the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their...
| Author | Wade Davis |
| ISBN | 0807842109 |
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process...
| Author | Maya Deren |
| ISBN | 0914232630 |
Includes photographs and drawings. Foreword by Joseph Campbell This is the classic, intimate study, movingly written with the special insight of direct encounter, which was first published in 1953 by the fledgling Thames & Hudson firm in a series edited by Joseph Campbell. Maya Deren's Divine...
| Author | Michele Wucker |
| ISBN | 0809097133 |
Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto....
| Author | Amy Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0671706284 |
With this sort of sociological book about a place with an interesting history, people and events, the author does a lot of research, both from media and in the field, and carefully looks at the facts and sees the bigger picture and that helps formulate what kind of book they are going to write. Each chapter...
| Author | Randall Robinson |
| ISBN | 0465070507 |
My step-brother, Erik Badger, has worked in and for Haiti for decades, most recently with Haiti Partners in supporting six schools in that country. Consequently I've developed an interest with that small state, the poorest in the Americas. Years ago I read one of Aristide's books and from that and the...
| Author | Philippe Girard |
| ISBN | 0230112900 |
Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally;...
Masters of the Dew (Caribbean Writers Series)
| Author | Jacques Roumain |
| ISBN | 0435987453 |
This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.
The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working...
| Author | Milo Rigaud |
| ISBN | 0872861716 |
Secrets of Voodoo traces the development in Haiti and the Americas of this complex religion from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods of loas and their function, the symbols and signs, rituals, and the ceremonial calendar...
| Author | Paul Farmer |
| ISBN | 1567513441 |
The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters—uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in its bitter fate.—Noam Chomsky, from the...
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
| Author | Karen McCarthy Brown |
| ISBN | 0520224752 |
Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic,...
| Author | Laurent Dubois |
| ISBN | 0674018265 |
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French...
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 0380711117 |
Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez -- National...
| Author | Richard Chase |
| ISBN | 0618346929 |
Note, Dec. 15, 2017: I edited this review just now to correct a minor typo.
As kids, most Americans are exposed, at one time or another, to a retelling of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Some Americans are vaguely aware that this is a very old story, going back several centuries at least. But...
| Author | John Hemming |
| ISBN | 0500514011 |
By far the world's largest river, the Amazon flows through the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest on earth. Human beings settled in Amazonia ten thousand years ago and learned to live well on its bounty. Europeans first saw the Amazon around 1500 and started settling there in the seventeenth century....
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
| Author | Peter Hallward |
| ISBN | 1844671062 |
Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long been one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or “the flood,” sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial...
| Author | Victor Hugo |
| ISBN | 1551114461 |
Bug-Jargal, Victor Hugo
Bug-Jargal is a novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. First published in 1826. The novel follows a friendship between the enslaved African prince of the title and a French military officer named Leopold D'Auverney during the tumultuous early years of the Haitian Revolution.
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Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken...
