“Bowls of cherries and pear trees in the summer. Bumblebees on honeysuckle bushes and fresh hot coffee. The wind running its fingers through the trees. Sunlight warms our strawberry patches. The mornings aren’t quiet. There are robins picking twigs from the long grass and songbirds hiding in the branches. The hills are still wet with dew. Our neighbors’ cows moo ‘good morning’ towards our windows. I roll over in bed to see you and find you already awake, already smiling. These days, I never wonder if you love me. I can see it so clearly on your face.”
— Schuyler Peck, Strawberry Patches
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Hey! I love your work. Please could I request quotes on theme of rivers? Thank you so much, have a lovely day!
Adele, River Lea
Spirited Away (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Richard Siken, Boot Theory
Ada Limón, Sharks In The Rivers
Heraclitus
Mary J. Blige, Mighty River
David Dunlop, Blue River Reflections
Emeli Sande, River
Benjamin Alire Sàenz, Carry Me Like Water
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Black Folklore Resource.
I’ve been thinking and researching a lot about the (Black) Southern Gothic style/aesthetic and African American folklore, so I put together a list of books for myself and thought it might be helpful to someone else.
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FOLKTALE COLLECTIONS
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton | Thrift Books Amazon
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Amazon
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston | Amazon Thrift Books
Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston | Thrift Books Amazon
Go Gator and Muddy the Water : Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers Project by Zora Neale Hurston | Thrift Books Amazon
Lies and Other Tall Tales by Zora Neale Hurston and Joyce Carol Thomas | Thrift Books Amazon
FOLKLORE AND STORYTELLING
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine | Thrift Books
Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans | Thrift Books Amazon
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas by Harold Courlander | Amazon
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young | Amazon
Talk That Talk: An Anthology on African-American Storytelling by Linda Goss | Amazon
African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger Abrahams | Amazon
Deep Down in the Jungle: Black American Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia by Roger Abrahams | Amazon
Singing the Master : The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South by Roger D. Abrahams | Thrift Books Amazon
From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom by John W. Roberts | Amazon
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner | Amazon
Black Folktales by Julius Lester | Amazon
Folk beliefs of the southern Negro (1926) by Newbell Niles Pucket | Amazon
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner | Amazon
HUMOR
African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (The Library of Black America series) by Mel Watkins, Dick Gregory | Amazon
Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor by Daryl Cumber Dance, Nikki Giovanni | Amazon
STYLE
The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch | Amazon
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker, Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Amazon
MAGIC/MYSTICISM
African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism by Joy R. Bostic | Amazon
Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Hoodoo Sen Moise | Amazon
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Ifalaye Books | Amazon
FOLK HEALING
Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee | Amazon
African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and nonHerbal Treatments by Herbert C. Cove | Amazon
African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem | Amazon
ADDITIONS: 7/27/2019
(NOTE: As I continue to add books, some of these may deviate from folklore and focus on Black history and/or Black experiences)
Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris | Thriftbooks Amazon
The Skull Talks Back: And Other Haunting Tales by Joyce Carol Thomas & Zora Neale Hurston | Thriftbooks Amazon
Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway | Thriftbooks Amazon
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant by Kelly Brown Douglas | Amazon
This is absolutely not a definitive list and if you have more information or recommendations please feel free to add it!
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hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror.
- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974
- horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981
- when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002
- her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981
- bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977
- why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009
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