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Wishbone : reference and interpretation in Black folk narrative
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- Creator
- Laura C. Jarmon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xxxix, 372 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781572332737, 1572332735
- OCLC
- ocm51222173
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: a modal discourse -- Tar baby: binding and transcription -- Good sense: duty and ambivalence -- Buzzard: faith and paradox -- Pots and hoes: working and saving -- Skull: presence and propriety -- Cursing: sanction and mood -- Conclusion: humor and the joker