Abstract
Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans, published in 1978, derived from fieldwork done far a doctoral dissertation at Virginia Commonwealth University by Daryl Cumber Dance (the only woman named Daryl I have heard of aside from Daryl Hannah). She gathered stories and verses from black Virginians in colleges, senior citizens' centers, and a penitentiary. Though she doesn't bring to the party an editorial touch as enlivening as Zora Neale Hurston's, she has an ear and-unlike far, far too many assiduous collectors of folktales - knows how to capture vocal rhythms on a page.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1994
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Copyright © 1994 W.W. Norton and Company. This chapter first appeared in Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor.
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Recommended Citation
Dance, Daryl Cumber. "Various Black Virginians as Told to Daryl Cumber Dance." In Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, 286-92. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994.
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