Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, his co-editor on a new anthology of African American folktales, joined On Point Tuesday to talk about "The Annotated African American Folktales ...

Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...

Maria Tatar has put together a truly beautiful book. A Harvard professor of Germanic literatures, author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1987) and Off With Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and ...

Tatar (Enchanted Hunters), a professor of folklore and mythology, reshapes archetypes of the heroine in this rewarding if scattershot literary history. Expanding on the work of Joseph Campbell, Tatar ...

Maria Tatar, chair of Folklore and Mythology and the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, is editor of *The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales*. The author of ...

We’re talking to Henry Louis Gates Jr. and folklore scholar Maria Tatar about their groundbreaking new book, “The Annotated African American Folktales.” ...

A groundbreaking collection of African-American folktales is out. We'll turn the pages with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and folklore scholar Maria Tatar. A groundbreaking collection of African-American ...