The Marengo Jake Stories - The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton

"Marengo Jake is a fascinating character, and his stories tell us about folklore, folk tales, and dialect patterns, as well as such details as plantation Christmas customs under slavery, the origin of crowder beans, and the conjuring Slave Cudjo." - James Haskins, Coretta Scott King Award winner"

About the author

Kathryn M. Sport is a teacher in Pensacola, Florida. Bert Hitchcock is Professor of English at Auburn University.

Summary

Marengo Jake is a fascinating character, and his stories tell us about folklore, folk tales, and dialect patterns, as well as such details as plantation Christmas customs under slavery.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Wilton Burton, Jake Mitchell, Jake (EDT)/ Burton Mitchell
• Assisted by: Bert Hitchcock (Editor), Kathryn Sport (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2007
• EAN: 9780817354749
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5474-9
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Library of Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics Series; Library of Alabama Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies