When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands - Couverture souple

Jones-Jackson, Patricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820323934 ISBN 13 : 9780820323930

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2004

Synopsis

When Roots Die celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

PATRICIA JONES-JACKSON, an associate professor of English at Howard University, died in 1986 while on assignment for the National Geographic Society on Johns Island, South Carolina.

CHARLES JOYNER, author of Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, is Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at the University of South Carolina, Coastal College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820323934
• ISBN 13: 9780820323930
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible