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Sitting up with the dead : a storied journey through the American South / Pamela Petro.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Arcade Publishing, 2017.Description: xxii, 414 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1628727039
  • 9781628727036
Subject(s):
Contents:
First Journey -- Akbar's Tale -- Tar Baby -- Colonel Rod's Tale -- The Mule Egg -- Vickie's Tale -- Rosehill's Tale -- The Kudzu's Tale -- Grandfather Creates Snake -- Orville's Tale -- Jack and the Varmints -- David's Tale -- Ross and Anna -- Second Journey -- Veronica's Tale -- A Polar Bear's Bar-Be-Cue -- Taily Po -- Kwame's Tale -- The Story of the Girl and the Fish -- Alice's Tale -- Cornelia's Tale -- The Plat-Eye -- Fouchena's Tale -- The Flying Africans -- Minerva's Tale -- Tom's Tale -- The Story of Lavinia Fisher -- Third Journey -- Ray's Tale -- Fourth Journey -- Ollie's Tale -- Kathryn's Tale -- The Grandfather Tales -- David Joe's Tale -- The Peddler Man -- Karen's Tale -- Rose and Charlie -- The Tale of the Farmer's Smart Daughter -- Oyo's Tale -- Mitch and Carla's Tale -- How My Grandma was Marked -- Wicked John -- The Bell Witch's Tale -- Annie's Tale -- Shug -- My First Experience with a Flush Commode -- Angela's Tale -- Rose Anne's Tale -- The Song in the Mist -- Granny Griffin's Tale -- The Dead Man.
Summary: Includes Jack the trickster, boo-bags and plat-eyes, ghosts, and singing turtles, an enchanting and entertaining collection of tales, culminating from the author.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 398.2097 P497 Available 33111008727063
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales.

Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead . Here, take a ride with Pamela Petro as she embarks on a series of road trips through the states of the Old South to collect its stories and meet its tellers of traditional tales. Some of them are local celebrities, others national treasures. Among them are Ray Hicks, a National Heritage Fellow; Kathryn Windham, the "ghost lady"; Nancy Basket, a kudzu paper-maker; Colonel Rod, self-proclaimed "Florida cracker"; and Grammy Award-winner David Holt. You encounter plat-eyes and boo-hags, Jack the trickster and Brer Rabbit, mule eggs, singing turtles, talking corpses, and flying Africans from the sea islands of South Carolina.

Stories provide the connective tissue of the South, linking the past with the present. They join communities as widespread as the coastal plains of the Carolinas and Georgia, the swamps of the Gulf Coast, and the mountains and valleys of Appalachia. As distinctly American as jazz, they blend cultures and oral traditions as diverse as those of southern England, Ireland, West Africa, and native America. They contain bits of lived history, both from before the Civil War and after. In Sitting Up with the Dead , Pamela Petro offers a paradoxical wake for the undying body of the Old South, to hear its truths and contemplate its robust afterlife in the tallest, "lyingest," most fruitful, and most haunting of its tales.

Includes index.

First Journey -- Akbar's Tale -- Tar Baby -- Colonel Rod's Tale -- The Mule Egg -- Vickie's Tale -- Rosehill's Tale -- The Kudzu's Tale -- Grandfather Creates Snake -- Orville's Tale -- Jack and the Varmints -- David's Tale -- Ross and Anna -- Second Journey -- Veronica's Tale -- A Polar Bear's Bar-Be-Cue -- Taily Po -- Kwame's Tale -- The Story of the Girl and the Fish -- Alice's Tale -- Cornelia's Tale -- The Plat-Eye -- Fouchena's Tale -- The Flying Africans -- Minerva's Tale -- Tom's Tale -- The Story of Lavinia Fisher -- Third Journey -- Ray's Tale -- Fourth Journey -- Ollie's Tale -- Kathryn's Tale -- The Grandfather Tales -- David Joe's Tale -- The Peddler Man -- Karen's Tale -- Rose and Charlie -- The Tale of the Farmer's Smart Daughter -- Oyo's Tale -- Mitch and Carla's Tale -- How My Grandma was Marked -- Wicked John -- The Bell Witch's Tale -- Annie's Tale -- Shug -- My First Experience with a Flush Commode -- Angela's Tale -- Rose Anne's Tale -- The Song in the Mist -- Granny Griffin's Tale -- The Dead Man.

Includes Jack the trickster, boo-bags and plat-eyes, ghosts, and singing turtles, an enchanting and entertaining collection of tales, culminating from the author.

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