Gullah Animal Tales from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina

by Albert Henry Stoddard, Will Killhour

The book is an interlinear translation of fifteen Gullah animal tales collected by Albert H. Stoddard from field hands starting in the 1870s. All but one of the tales feature the misadventures of Bubba Rabbit. Many of the stories are etiological folktales. They explain the origins of creatures with which the Gullah people on the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Island were familiar. The first story gives the Gullah culture's version of the Adam & Eve story. The interlinear translation consists of a transcription of Albert H. Stoddard's telling of the tails in the Gullah dialect in Library of Congress recordings on one side of each page. On the other side of the page is Will Killhour's translation into Ohio English.

Paperback

Published May 1, 1995