The present work seeks to demonstrate how the use of folklore, both as a discipline and as objects, leads to subversion in the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. A questioning of folklore (nature and origin of the items, definition of the discipline) sheds new light on literary issues such as identity formation and assignation or power relationships. In a transdiciplinary approach that goes beyond using resources from separate fields, this study aims at assessing how much they modify one another. Because she was both an anthropologist and a fiction writer, Hurston embodies the interaction between literary and folkloric materials. Her polymorphic work blends fiction with folklore and vernacular with poetic language. The epistemol...
Chapter in Feminine Identities.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1367/thumbnail.jp
Folklore, as a historical and cultural process producing and transmitting beliefs, stories, customs,...
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ance...
The present work seeks to demonstrate how the use of folklore, both as a discipline and as objects, ...
La thèse s’attache à démontrer comment l’utilisation du folklore, en tant que discipline et que maté...
Though folklore is a knowledge-sharing, identity-forming practice that is utilized by a number of cu...
The life-work of novelist/essayist/folklorist Zora Neale Hurston has been recently and lovingly salv...
Once upon a time there was folklore. Why magical beasts, our fears, dreams and illusions are in no h...
Folklorists have examined four relations of folklore and contemporary popular culture: the incorpora...
This paper will analyze how Toni Morrison blends surrealistic elements into the recognized realism o...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67224/2/10.1177_0308275X9301300404.pd
From its inception, folktale research has had a two-pronged aim: it has been interested, on the one ...
Born out of the convergence of intellectual traditions and owning a borrowing capacity analogous to ...
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines t...
Searching to identify positive, constructive ways forward in the face of folkloristics’ colonialist ...
Chapter in Feminine Identities.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1367/thumbnail.jp
Folklore, as a historical and cultural process producing and transmitting beliefs, stories, customs,...
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ance...
The present work seeks to demonstrate how the use of folklore, both as a discipline and as objects, ...
La thèse s’attache à démontrer comment l’utilisation du folklore, en tant que discipline et que maté...
Though folklore is a knowledge-sharing, identity-forming practice that is utilized by a number of cu...
The life-work of novelist/essayist/folklorist Zora Neale Hurston has been recently and lovingly salv...
Once upon a time there was folklore. Why magical beasts, our fears, dreams and illusions are in no h...
Folklorists have examined four relations of folklore and contemporary popular culture: the incorpora...
This paper will analyze how Toni Morrison blends surrealistic elements into the recognized realism o...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67224/2/10.1177_0308275X9301300404.pd
From its inception, folktale research has had a two-pronged aim: it has been interested, on the one ...
Born out of the convergence of intellectual traditions and owning a borrowing capacity analogous to ...
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines t...
Searching to identify positive, constructive ways forward in the face of folkloristics’ colonialist ...
Chapter in Feminine Identities.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1367/thumbnail.jp
Folklore, as a historical and cultural process producing and transmitting beliefs, stories, customs,...
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ance...