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The silence of the hippo black folktales
- Title
- The silence of the hippo black folktales / David Bohm ; foreword, Terezie Böhmová.
- Author
- Böhm, David, 1982-
- Publication
- London : Centrala Ltd., [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 63 pages : illustrations; 33 cm
- Summary
- Poetic, somewhat absurd and in some places dark -- such are the short folktales of this book. Most of them come out of traditional African folklore though, in the rendition of children storytellers, with a rather distinctive flavor. The texts arrived into the hands of the Czech artist David Böhm, in the suitcase of his sister Terezie as a stack of student essays from a small Central African school. The imagination of the Black Continent unmercifully breaks down our European preconception of what a folktale is supposed to look like. Somewhat shocking to children, it is a singularly refreshing comic strip for adults.
- Subject
- Animals > Comic books, strips, etc
- Fables, African > Comic books, strips, etc
- Fairy tales > Africa > Comic books, strips, etc
- Africans > Folklore > Comic books, strips, etc
- Tales > Africa > Comic books, strips, etc
- Legends > Africa > Comic books, strips, etc
- Folklore > Africa > Comic books, strips, etc
- Black people > Comic books, strips, etc
- Animals
- Graphic novels
- Genre/Form
- Folk tales.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Call Number
- Sc G 21-51
- ISBN
- 9781912278060
- 1912278065
- OCLC
- 1063696390
- Author
- Böhm, David, 1982- author, artist.
- Title
- The silence of the hippo black folktales / David Bohm ; foreword, Terezie Böhmová.
- Publisher
- London : Centrala Ltd., [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- Sc G 21-51