Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler
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Title
Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler
This edition
"The Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler" . Comp. Dennis Wepman, Ronald B. Newman, and Murray B. Binderman. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1976. 205 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1976; repr. 1985. 223 pp.
Table of contents
Introduction
● The Life
● Performance
● The Genre
● A Note on the Text
THE TOASTS
Narratives
● The Signifying Monkey
● The Signifying Monkey II
● The Pool-Shooting Monkey
● Mexicana Rose
● Duriella du Fontaine
● Kitty Barrett
● Honky-Tonk Bud
● The Return of Honky-Tonk Bud
● Good-Doing Wheeler
● The Fall
● Dumbo the Junkie
● Sugar Hill
● Broadway Sam
● The Junkie
● Konky Mohair
● The Ball of the Freaks
● Wise Egg
● Death Row
● Bill and Lil
● Bad Dan
● Badman Dan and Two-Gun Green
● Bill Skinner
● Stagger Lee
● The Letter
● Answer to the Letter
● Pimping Sam
● One Thin Dime
Boasts and Precepts
● Master o the Long-Shoe Game
● The Hustler
● Do You Know What It Means?
● Sporting Life
● Do Your Crying or the Living
● King Heroin
● King Heroin II
● Glossary
● Works Consulted
● Index of Titles and First Lines
● The Life
● Performance
● The Genre
● A Note on the Text
THE TOASTS
Narratives
● The Signifying Monkey
● The Signifying Monkey II
● The Pool-Shooting Monkey
● Mexicana Rose
● Duriella du Fontaine
● Kitty Barrett
● Honky-Tonk Bud
● The Return of Honky-Tonk Bud
● Good-Doing Wheeler
● The Fall
● Dumbo the Junkie
● Sugar Hill
● Broadway Sam
● The Junkie
● Konky Mohair
● The Ball of the Freaks
● Wise Egg
● Death Row
● Bill and Lil
● Bad Dan
● Badman Dan and Two-Gun Green
● Bill Skinner
● Stagger Lee
● The Letter
● Answer to the Letter
● Pimping Sam
● One Thin Dime
Boasts and Precepts
● Master o the Long-Shoe Game
● The Hustler
● Do You Know What It Means?
● Sporting Life
● Do Your Crying or the Living
● King Heroin
● King Heroin II
● Glossary
● Works Consulted
● Index of Titles and First Lines
Reviews and notices of anthology
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Cited in
not in Kinnamon 1997]
Item Number
A0208