![]() ![]() Authors and illustrators took a new interest in African tales - little known for the most part and often intriguingly different: stories of the beginnings of things, how-and-why tales, trickster yarns in the Brer Rabbit vein. ![]() The search was also on for new material, however, and at a time of Third World consciousness it extended far beyond Europe. So when the picture-book explosion of the 1960s and 1970s swept up classic fairy tales and popular favorites of the “Tom Tit Tot” variety, they didn’t blink it was librarians and others of a literary bent who recoiled at the subordination of words to pictures, and sometimes still do. ![]() He called it fakelore, and to his mind most folklore published for children fell into that category.ĭorson and other folklorists didn’t concern themselves with “Cinderella” and the like, stories that had long since passed from oral into written literature. Richard Dorson, the late dean of American folklorists, had a word for folklore that was not authentic, not the voice of the people. ![]()
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