Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

by Carl Lindahl

Book Overview

Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state.

Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878059318
• ISBN13: 9780878059317
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"