paperback- 400 pages

More than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of  transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state.

Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions.  For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. Carl Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.