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BL
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1039857
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b794227
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| Title & Author
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Get your ass in the water and swim like me : : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition /\ [compiled by] Bruce Jackson.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, c2004.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0203323319
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: 1135879281
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: 9780203323311
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: 9781135879280
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0415969964
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0415969972
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9780415969963
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9780415969970
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Telling and learning toasts -- Functions and themes: violence, sex, and the failure of romance -- Pimps and their ladies: insult and reputation -- Badman and trickster: functional outsiders -- Shine and the Titanic: goodbye to Charlie -- Beyond poetry -- Badmen, crime, and jail -- Pimps, whores, and other lovers and friends -- Freaks and supersex -- Signifying and poolshooting monkey -- The Titanic toasts -- Miscellaneous narratives -- Short versus and drinking toasts.
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Annotation
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African Americans, Poetry.
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American poetry-- African American authors.
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Folk poetry, American.
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Narrative poetry, American.
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Oral tradition-- United States.
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Toasts (African American folk poetry)
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African Americans.
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American poetry-- African American authors.
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Folk poetry, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Poetry.
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Lyrik
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Mündliche Überlieferung
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Narrative poetry, American.
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Oral tradition.
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Toasts (African American folk poetry)
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Schwarze.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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811.08/96073
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| LC Classification
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PS477.5.T6
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| Added Entry
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Jackson, Bruce,1936-
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