Two Evenings in Saramaka: Afro-American Tale-telling in the Surinam Rain Forest

by Richard Price and Sally Price

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"Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense songs—mere folklore?"

In this innovative work, Richard and Sally Price explore the fully adult world of Saramaka "folktale-land," where animals speak, the social order is inverted, customs have been only partially worked out, and the weak and clever triumph over the strong and arrogant. Joining the Saramaka of the Suriname rain forest for two tale-telling wakes, we...Read more
  • ISBN10 0226680614
  • ISBN13 9780226680613
  • Publish Date 7 May 1991
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press