Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World) free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World) free ebook download

Category:
History

Views: 309
Likes: 268

Catalogue

Author(s):	Jane C. Beck

Date:	2015-06-09	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0252080793
Pages:	312	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9780252080791
Uploader:	alex21s	Upload Date:	3/10/2017 7:44:09 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her - "a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved" - began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life.

In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors  Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read  his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer  and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermontin short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards - and uses - of memory.

"Folklorist Beck's story of the Turner family's transition from freedom to slavery to freedom again is a marvel of scholarly storytelling. An engrossing American tale." - Publisher's Weekly

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
1843720	Book	http://tezfiles.com/file/c02a3ddee47b6...		3.80	alex21s

Tags: African American Daisy Family Folklore Multicultural Saga Studies Turner World

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: