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Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim Like Me: African-American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition
Get Your Ass in the Water Swim Like Me AfricanAmerican Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition
Author: Bruce Jackson
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me is considered one of the great, classic collections of African-American literature and folklore. Originally published by in 1974 in hardcover only, it quickly gained the reputation as a classic collection of Black folk poetry known as "toasts." Toasts are probably the only living form of oral na...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415969970
ISBN-10: 0415969972
Publication Date: 3/18/2004
Pages: 264
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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