Bibliograph

The silence of the hippo black folktales, David Bohm ; foreword, Terezie Böhmová

Type

Label

The silence of the hippo black folktales, David Bohm ; foreword, Terezie Böhmová

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The silence of the hippo black folktales

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1063696390

Responsibility statement

David Bohm ; foreword, Terezie Böhmová

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

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