Daryl Cumber Dance

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

She was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Allen Cumber and Veronica Bell Cumber. Dance attended Ruthville High School in Ruthville, Virginia, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia State College in 1957. Dance 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, Dance graduated from the University of Virginia with a doctorate in English, and was named an assistant professor at Virginia State. Dance taught at Virginia Commonwealth University between 1972 and 1993, when she joined the University of Richmond faculty. In 2013, Dance 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]

Works
  • Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans (1978)[3]
  • Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans (1985)[4]
  • Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (1986)[5]
  • Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore (1987)[6]
  • New World Adams: Conversations With Contemporary West Indian Writers (1992)[7]
  • Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1998)[8]
  • From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (2002)
  • In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse (2016)[9]

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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Skinner, Ewart (1988). "Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Daryl Cumber Dance". Modern Fiction Studies. 34 (2): 262–263. JSTOR 26282594.
  6. 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. JSTOR 3674822.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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 – via Project MUSE.
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