African American Folktales

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Maria Tatar will discuss their book, The Annotated African American Folktales. The illustrated book celebrates nearly 170 stories across several continents and is a kaleidoscopic study of the African American folklore tradition. It presents fairy tales from Africa, trickster tales, ballads of heroes, rarely seen stories and those thought to be lost, black origin stories, and Caribbean and Latin American folktales A book signing will follow the program.