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Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the tellers themselves.

Edited and introduced by John A. Burrison and selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students, Storytellers brings together for the first time in one book a broad variety of tales told in voices of African-American, Anglo-Saxon, and Native American descent. The work speaks of the South-not one South but many, a region whose diversity is revealed and preserved in the telling of tales.

Presented in a standard-sized format, this affordable paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the earlier clothbound edition.

John A. Burrison is a professor of English and director of the folklore curriculum at Georgia State University. He is the author of Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery and Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South, both published by the University of Georgia Press.

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"[The stories] testify to the enormously rich vein of imagination and humor of this area. . . . Storytellers makes fine, enjoyable reading. Its best influence might be to inspire readers to remember stories of their own."
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution