Abstract
Growing up in Hanover, Virginia, "surrounded by people who cast the world in vibrant and poetic colors," Sw. Anand Prahlad "fell in love with proverbs at an early age" (ix). This lifelong love affair has resulted in a rich collection of African American proverbs that expanded as Prahlad went through college and graduate school, and did postgraduate research. All the while, he was sharpening his critical skills and developing the theoretical framework to establish a model for use in examining the varied components of proverbial speech in the African American community, proceeding on the assumption that in order to understand a given folkloric speech event, one must explore the entire situation surrounding that event. The result is African-American Proverbs in Context.
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Fall 1997
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 1997, Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in African American Review: 31:3 (1997), 526-528.
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Recommended Citation
Dance, Daryl Cumber. "Review of African-American Proverbs in Context by Sw. Anand Prahlad." African American Review 31, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 526-28.
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