Literature and folklore -- United States
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Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)- Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
- Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Literature and folklore- The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction (London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,1880), by Edward Yardley
- Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Douglas Gray and Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), by Simon J. Bronner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1995), ed. by Barbara Walker (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1987), by Michael Owen Jones
- Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, by Charles M. Skinner (Gutenberg text)
- Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States (1997 edition), by Peter Bartis and Stephanie A. Hall (HTML at LOC)
- Folklife Resources in the Library of Congress (revised edition, 1994), by Timothy Charles Lloyd and Hillary Glatt (PDF at ed.gov)
- Southern Folklore Quarterly (partial serial archives)
- Journal of American Folklore (partial serial archives)
- AFS Public Programs Bulletin, by American Folklore Society (partial serial archives)
- Hoosier Folklore (full serial archives)
- Hoosier Folklore Bulletin (full serial archives)
- Keystone Folklore (partial serial archives)
- The Pennsylvania Dutchman (full serial archives)
- Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
- A Shared Space: Folklife in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), by James S. Griffith (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being The Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona, by John William Lloyd (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folklore of Romantic Arkansas (2 volumes; New York: The Grolier Society, 1931), by Fred W. Allsopp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1940), by Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project, ed. by Mary Granger (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Legends of the Wailuku, As Told by Old Hawaiians and Done Into the English Tongue (second edition; Honolulu: C. R. Frazier Co., c1921), by Charlotte Hapai, illust. by Will Herwig
- Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends, by Thomas G. Thrum (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Hawaiian Historical Legends, by W. D. Westervelt
- Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (Boston: Ellis Press, 1916), by W. D. Westervelt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Hawaiian Mythology, by Martha Warren Beckwith (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology), Collected and Translated From the Hawaiian (Boston: Press of G. H. Ellis Co.; London: Constable and Co., 1915), by W. D. Westervelt
- Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909), by Nathaniel Bright Emerson (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 95; Honolulu: The Museum, 1932), by Kepelino, ed. by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Myths and Legends of our New Possessions and Protectorate (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by Charles M. Skinner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Idaho Lore (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1939), by Federal Writers' Project (Idaho), contrib. by Vardis Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kentucky Superstitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by Daniel Lindsey Thomas and Lucy Blayney Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
- Timberland Tall Tales (Skowhegan, ME: Skowhegan Press, c1960), by Merle G. Chadbourne (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voodoo Tales, As Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Mary Alicia Owen, contrib. by Charles Godfrey Leland, illust. by Juliette A. Owen and Louis Wain
- Nebraska Folk Cures (1935), by Pauline Monette Black (PDF at unl.edu)
- Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
- Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
- Brother Albrecht's Secret Chamber: A Legend of the Ancient Moravian Sun Inn of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Lititz, PA: Express Print. Co., 1914), by James B. Laux (page images at HathiTrust)
- Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #55; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c1997), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy (page images at unt.edu)
- Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African American-Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #54; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c1996), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar (page images at unt.edu)
- Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2004), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy and Kenneth L. Untiedt (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Coffee in the Gourd (1923), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
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