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Shinqītī folk literature and song [by] H. T. Norris.
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- Oxford [Eng.] Clarendon Press [c1968]
- 1968
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OFC (Norris, H. T. Shinqiti folk literature and song) Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 892.78-N (Norris, H. Shinqiti folk literature and song) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Shinqītī folk literature and song [by] H. T. Norris.
- Text
- Oxford, Clarendon P., 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PJ8390.S24N677 1968 Off-site Chinye : a West African folk tale / retold by Obi Onyefulu ; illustrated by Evie Safarewicz.
- Text
- New York : Viking, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 96-281 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African oral literature for schools / Jane Nandwa, Austin Bukenya.
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- Nairobi : Longman Kenya, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 86-184 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Introduction to African oral literature / by Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah.
- Text
- Ilorin, Nigeria : Ilorin Press, University of Ilorin, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1857 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Folk-literature of the Galla of southern Abyssinia.
- Text
- [Cambridge, Mass., Peabody Museum of Harvard university, 1922.]
- 1922
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AFR.EAST C 337 f Off-site Fundamentals of African oral literature / Jasper Ahaoma Onuekwusi.
- Text
- Owerri, Nigeria : Alphabet Nigeria Publishers, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-3584 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
New studies in African literature / edited by Umar Abdurrahman.
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- Ibadan, Nigeria : Kraft Books Limited, 2018.
- 2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 20-3154 Offsite Foundations in southern African oral literature / edited by Russell H. Kaschula.
- Text
- Johannesburg : Witwatersrand Univ. Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-292 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America / David G. Nicholls.
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 00-1267 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African children's and youth literature / Osayimwense Osa.
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- New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PR9344 .O8 1995 Off-site West African drama: folk, popular, and literary.
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- [Stanford, Calif.] 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z-2549 Offsite Genres, forms, meanings : essays in African oral literature / edited by Veronika Görög-Karady ; with a foreword by Ruth Finnegan.
- Text
- Paris : M[aison des] S[ciences de l'] H[omme] ; Oxford : JASO, 1983, c1982.
- 1983-1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350 .G45 Off-site Language and literature in the African American imagination / edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay.
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PS153.N5 L36 1992 Off-site Stories of Black folk for little folk [microform] / by Bessie Landrum.
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- Atlanta, Ga. : A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1923.
- 1923
- 3 Items
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/abd3db60-c61d-012f-12ce-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEC (Landrum, B. Stories of black folk for little folk) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-12828, no. 152 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Genres, forms, meanings : essays in African oral literature / edited by Veronika Görög-Karady; with a foreword by Ruth Finnegan.
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- Oxford, [Oxfordshire] : JASO, 1982
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 87-384 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African oral literature : backgrounds, character, and continuity / Isidore Okpewho.
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 92-413 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Power, marginality and African oral literature / edited by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner.
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-941 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African oral literature : functions in contemporary contexts / edited by Russell H. Kaschula.
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- Claremont, South Africa : New Africa Books, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350 .A359 2001g Off-site Introduction to African oral literature : a literary-descriptive approach / by F.B.O. Akporobaro.
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- Lagos, Nigeria : William Wilberforce Institute for African Research & Development, Lighthouse Publishing Co., c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-2436 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African-American folk archetypes and language in the African-American oral tradition and their influence on selected contemporary African-American poets / by Betty Jean Phillips.
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- 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1170 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Papers on African literature : given at the seminar series on African art and literature, Sheffield University, 1975-6 / edited by Christopher Heywood.
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- Sheffield : Department of English Literature, The University ; London : Africa Educational Trust ; Austin, Texas : [distributed by] University of Texas Press (Periodicals), 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PL8010 .P28 Off-site Genres, forms, meanings : essays in African oral literature / edited by Veronika Görög-Karady ; with a foreword by Ruth Finnegan.
- Text
- Paris : M[aison des] S[ciences de l'] H[omme] ; Oxford : JASO, 1983, ©1982.
- 1983-1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350 .G45 Off-site The souls of white folk : African American writers theorize whiteness / Veronica T. Watson.
- Text
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 14-192 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The souls of white folk [electronic resource] : African American writers theorize whiteness / Veronica T. Watson.
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
- 2013
- 2 Resources
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Conjuring the folk : modernity and narrative in African America, 1915-1945 / by David Greene Nicholls.
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- 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 98-2061 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Our landscapes, our narratives : proceedings of the Conference on East African Oral Literature / edited by Henry Indangasi, Eunice Nyamasyo, Peter Wasamba.
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- Nairobi : Kenya Oral Literature Association, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 07-2645 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Contemporary African American literature : the living canon / edited by Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner.
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
- 2013-2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 14-1058 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures / Inder Sidhu.
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
- 2023-2023
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 23-8311 Offsite The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches / Bernard W. Bell.
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013508.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 05-656 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The contemporary African American novel [electronic resource] : its folk roots and modern literary branches / Bernard W. Bell.
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.
- 2004
- 2 Resources
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The hammers of creation : folk culture in modern African-American fiction / Eric J. Sundquist.
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- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 93-13191 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 96-390 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Short stories of the traditional people of Nigeria : African folks, back home / John E. Eberegbulam Njoku.
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 92-295 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Short stories of the traditional people of Nigeria : African folks, back home / John E. Eberegbulam Njoku.
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PR9387.9.N43 C6 1991 Off-site Introduction to African oral literature : a literary-descriptive approach / by F.B.O. Akporobaro.
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- Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria : W. Wilberforce Institute for African Research & Development : Lighthouse Pub., 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350 .A48 2001 Off-site Oral literature in African libraries : implications for Ghana / by A. Anaba [i.e. Anaba A.] Alemna.
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- Bloomington, Ind. : African Studies Program, Indiana University, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Z688.O52 A44 1993 Off-site Introduction to African oral literature / by Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʾallah.
- Text
- Ilorin, Nigeria : Ilorin Press, University of Ilorin, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350 .O367 1991 Off-site Genres, forms, meanings : essays in African oral literature : papers in French and English / edited by Veronika Görög-Karady ; with a foreword by Ruth Finnegan.
- Text
- Paris : MSH ; Oxford : JASO, 1983, 1982.
- 1983-1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 88-4747 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Rhetoric and poetics of oral African literature : a study of the Ga of Ghana / by Abu Shardow Abarry.
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- 1978, c1977.
- 1977
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 06-2758 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Symbolism in African verbal art.
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- [n. p., 1967?]
- 1967
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.2-C (Crowley, D. Symbolism in African verbal art) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois ; introduction by Robert Cummings.
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- Grand Rapids, Mich. : Candace Press, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 02-1344 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American folk survivals in contemporary Black American theater [microform] / by Donald Maurice Morales.
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- 1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-5600 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
What if there were no Black folks : a story about African American inventors and pioneers / by Toni Abasi Hill ; illustrations by Rashid Abut-Bey.
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- Atlanta, GA : Toni Hill Enterprises, LLC, ©2014.
- 2014
Folk dance / by Sherry Bonnice.
- Text
- Broomall, Pa. : Mason Crest Publishers, c2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MGR 04-3435 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
A Setswana reader (folk narratives) / by D. Jones & S.T. Plaatje = Padasi ya dinaane tsa Batswana / ka D. Jones & S.T. Plaatje ; adaptation of Setswana orthography, M.K. Molebaloa.
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- Kimberley : Sol Plaatje Educational Trust, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc G 08-250 no. 1-4 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tales of the home folks in peace and war, by Joel Chandler Harris ...
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- Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898.
- 1898
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBO (Harris, J. C. Tales of the home folks) Offsite Standpoints on African orature / Nol Alembong.
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- Yaoundé, Cameroon : Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, ©2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350 .A49 2011 Off-site Matabele folk tales / R.W. Lamplough ; illustrated by Peter Clark.
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- Salisbury : Oxford University Press : Rhodesia Literature Bureau, 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR360.M383 L34 Off-site Our riddles and folk tales / by Shu A.C.
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- Yaounde : [s.n.], 1988 Printed by Pub. and Production Centre)
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 91-958 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Shona folk tales / collected by A.C. Hodza ; translated by O.C. Chiromo ; edited by C. Kileff.
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- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR358.62.M3N4813 1987 Off-site
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