Advancing Folkloristics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fivecoate, Jesse A.; McGriff, Meredith A. E.; Downs, Kristina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop critical personal narratives?

Advancing Folkloristics covers topics such as queer, feminist, and postcolonial scholarship in folkloristics. Contributors investigate how to apply folkloristic approaches in nonfolklore classrooms, how to maintain a folklorist identity without a "folklorist" job title, and how to use folkloristic knowledge to interact with others outside of the discipline. The chapters, which range from theoretical reorientations to personal experiences of folklore work, all demonstrate the kinds of work folklorists are well-suited to and promote the areas in which folkloristics is poised to expand and excel.

Advancing Folkloristics presents a clear picture of folklore studies today and articulates how it must adapt in the future.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253057112
• Artikelnr.: 62097708

Autorenporträt

Jesse A. Fivecoate is a doctoral candidate in folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2018, he received the Dorson Dissertation Prize from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Kristina Downs is Managing Editor of the Journal of Folklore Research. She is also creator and host of the Crimelore podcast. Meredith A. E. McGriff is Membership Director of the American Folklore Society and co-founder of Hoosier Films. She is author of The Michiana Potters: Art, Community, and Collaboration in the Midwest.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Challenges and Possibilities across Boundaries
by Margaret A. Mills Acknowledgments Envisioning a Future Folkloristics
by Jesse A. Fivecoate
Kristina Downs
and Meredith A. E. McGriff 1. Deep Folklore/Queer Folkloristics
by Kay Turner 2. "An Epidemic of Meanings": The Tenuous Nature of Public Intellectualism
Reflexivity
and Belief Scholarship
by Andrea Kitta 3. Expanding the Territory
by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby 4. The Politics of Trivialization
by Jesse A. Fivecoate
Kristina Downs
and Meredith A. E. McGriff 5. The Folklorization of Queer Theory: Public Spaces
Pride
and Gay Neoliberalism
by Cory W. Thorne and Guillermo De Los Reyes 6. Yemayá's Fury: Residual Flows
Ecological Disaster
and Folklore Futures
by Solimar Otero 7. Infusing Public Folklore Work into Academe: Experiencing the In-Between
by Gregory Hansen 8. Folklorists as Curators: Exploring the Four Cs
by Betty J. Belanus 9. Culturally Conscious Collaborations at the Nexus of Folklore
Education
and Social Justice: Lessons and Questions for Folkloristic Praxis
by Phyllis M. May-Machunda 10. The Power of Folkloristics at the Intersection of Affect
Narrative
and Performance in the College Classroom
by Anthony Guest-Scott 11. The Folkloristic Diaspora: On Being a Folklorist in a Black Studies Department
by Anika Wilson 12. Standing with Others: Folklorists in the Midst of Home
by Wanda G. Addison 13. Disruptive Folklore
Debra Lattanzi Shutika 14. Talking Folklore: Getting Others to Take the Discipline Seriously while Remaining a Serious Folklorist
by Andrea Kitta
Lynne S. McNeill
and Trevor J. Blank Afterword: Advancing Folkloristics
by Norma E. Cantú Index