Marengo Jake Stories: The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton

Contributor(s): Mitchell, Jake (Author), Sport, Kathryn (Editor), Hitchcock, Bert (Editor), Burton, Robert Wilton (Editor)

ISBN: 9780817354749

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$29.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$42.90 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$41.70 (100+ copies: $40.95)

List/retail price:

$29.95

Pub Date: May 1, 2007

Dewey: 813.4

LCCN: 2008019528

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.40" L x 5.40" W ( 0.75 lbs) 256 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | African American and Black

Series: Library of Alabama Classics

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description:

Marengo Jake is a fascinating character, and his stories tell us about folklore, folk tales, and dialect patterns, as well as such details as plantation Christmas customs under slavery.

Review Quotes: "Marengo Jake is a fascinating character, and his stories tell us about folklore, folk tales, and dialect patterns, as well as such details as plantation Christmas customs under slavery, the origin of crowder beans, and the conjuring Slave Cudjo."-- James Haskins, Coretta Scott King Award winner