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List of contents
Introduction, Cathy Lynn Preston; Part 1 The Literary; Chapter 1 Politics and Indigenous Theory in Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Yellow Woman” and Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek”, Alesia García; Chapter 2 Graffiti as Story and Act, Danielle M. Roemer; Chapter 3 Folklore and the Literature of Exile, Mark E. Workman; Chapter 4 Writing the Hybrid Body: Thomas Hardy and the Ethnographic “Money Shot”, Cathy Lynn Preston; Chapter 5 “Writing” and “Voice”: The Articulations of Gender in Folklore and Literature, Cristina Bacchilega; Chapter 6 Social Protest, Folklore, and Feminist Ideology in Chicana Prose and Poetry, María Herrera-Sobek; Part 2 The Traditional, Vernacular, and Local; Chapter 7 “Sidebar Excursions to Nowhere”: The Vernacular Storytelling of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray, John D. Dorst; Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women, Clover Williams, Jean R. Freedman; Chapter 9 Chuck Berry as Postmodern Composer-Performer, Peter Narváez; Chapter 10 Pieces for a Shabby Hut, Lee Haring; Chapter 11 Slave Spirituals: Allegories of the Recovery from Pain, Laura O’Connor; Chapter 12 Re-presentations of (Im)moral Behavior in the Middle English Non-Cycle Play “Mankind”, Michael J. Preston; Chapter 13 Oralities, and Literacies]: Comments on the Relationships of Contemporary Folkloristics and Literary Studies, Eric L. Montenyohl;
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Cathy Lynn Preston
Summary
First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the medium in which much folk communication and art actually took and takes place. In Part I of the collection, the contributors address literary constructions of traditional and emergent cultures, those of Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora, Carmen Tafolla, Julio Cortázar, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Thomas Hardy, and Dacia Maraini. The contributors to Part II of the collection offer readings of a variety of traditional, vernacular, and local performances.
