Daryl Cumber Dance

Daryl Cumber Dance
Born	(1938-01-17) January 17, 1938 (age 87) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Education	PhD in English
Alma mater	Virginia State College, University of Virginia
Occupation	Academic
Known for	Black folklore

Daryl Cumber Dance (born January 17, 1938) is an American academic best known for her work on black folklore.

Biography

Daryl Veronica Cumber was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Allen and Veronica Bell Cumber. She attended Ruthville High School in Ruthville, Virginia, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia State College in 1957. She then taught at Armstrong High School in Richmond until 1962, when she returned to Virginia State College as an instructor. The next year, she completed a master's degree from Virginia State. In 1971, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a doctorate in English, and was named an assistant professor at Virginia State. She taught at Virginia Commonwealth University between 1972 and 1993, when she joined the University of Richmond faculty. In 2013, she was appointed Sterling A. Brown Professor of English at Howard University. ^[1]

Dance has served as advisory editor of the Black American Literary Forum and editorial advisor of the Journal of West Indian Literature . ^[2] She is a member of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective. ^[3]

Works

• Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans (1978) ^[4]
• Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans (1985) ^[5]
• Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (1986) ^[6]
• Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore (1987) ^[7]
• New World Adams: Conversations With Contemporary West Indian Writers (1992) ^[8]
• Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1998) ^[9]
• From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (2002)
• In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse (2016) ^[10]

References

1. "Daryl Cumber Dance". The HistoryMakers. December 7, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
2. "Daryl Cumber Dance". State University of New York. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
3. "The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective".
4. Mullen, Patrick B. (1981). "Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans by Daryl Cumber Dance". The Journal of American Folklore. 94 (371): 119–120. doi:10.2307/540792. JSTOR   540792.
5. Boyce Davies, Carole (1988). "Daryl C. Dance. Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans". Research in African Literatures. 19 (3 Special Issue on Language and Style): 438–441. JSTOR   3819402.
6. Skinner, Ewart (1988). "Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Daryl Cumber Dance". Modern Fiction Studies. 34 (2): 262–263. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0919. JSTOR   26282594. S2CID   161754526.
7. Allen, Barbara (1988). "Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore by Daryl Cumber Dance". The Oral History Review. 16 (1): 152–154. doi:10.1093/ohr/16.1.152. JSTOR   3674822.
8. Casey, Ethan (1994). "Dance, Daryl Cumber. New World Adams: Conversations With Contemporary West Indian Writers". Callaloo . 17 (4): 1264–1266. doi:10.2307/2932197. JSTOR   2932197.
9. Doyle, Mary Ellen (2003). "Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor by Daryl Cumber Dance". African American Review. 37 (2/3, Amri Baraka Issue): 451–452. doi:10.2307/1512336. JSTOR   1512336.
10. Bouson, J. Brooks (2018). "In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse by Daryl Cumber Dance (review)". African American Review. 51 (1): 68–71. doi: 10.1353/afa.2018.0011 .