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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
This is a collection of Ozark folktales. All dirty and hugely raunchy, therefore unprintable when they were first collected in the mid-20th century. Some of these were hysterically funny. But I loved the way at the end of each story, there are scholarly notes talking about the origins of that story and related folktales from other cultures - from France, from the Talmud, etc. Amazingly cool stuff, and funny in the dirtiest of ways.
Wonderful collection of salty folktales! Makes for great reading aloud (NSFW).
This book was hysterical. Most of the stories were centered around sex, all of them were defined by this beautiful regionalism that too often is ignored. Hillbillies, people of the Ozarks region, and the people who live in the Appalachian territory are often caricatured by the image of inbred rapists taken straight out of Deliverance. This book goes a long way of combating that image I think, because it offers a second look by showing these people as humorous and at times self-parodying. Pissing in the snow is a collection of folk-tales and funny stories, recorded directly by Vance Randolph who studied folk-tales and regional narratives, and this book then is a fascinating glimpse at the way a people of a region crafted stories that would make them laugh, while understanding sexuality.
This was a great read.
You can read my full review of the book at my site White Tower Musings by following the link below:
https://jsjammersmith.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/pissing-on-myth-while-making-it-new-a-white-tower-review/
This was a great read.
You can read my full review of the book at my site White Tower Musings by following the link below:
https://jsjammersmith.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/pissing-on-myth-while-making-it-new-a-white-tower-review/