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Advancing folkloristics /

"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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fivecoate, Jesse A. (Editor ), Downs, Kristina (Editor ), McGriff, Meredith A. E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Challenges and possibilities across boundaries
  • Envisioning a future folkloristics
  • Deep folklore/queer folkloristics
  • "An epidemic of meanings" : the tenuous nature of public intellectualism, reflexivity, and belief scholarship
  • Expanding the territory
  • The politics of trivialization
  • The folklorization of queer theory : public spaces, pride, and gay neoliberalism
  • Yemayá's fury : residual flows, ecological disaster, and folklore futures
  • Infusing public folklore work into academe : experiencing the in-between
  • Folklorists as curators : exploring the four Cs
  • Culturally conscious collaborations at the nexus of folklore, education, and social justice : lessons and questions for folkloristic praxis
  • The power of folkloristics at the intersection of affect, narrative, and performance in the college classroom
  • The folkloristic diaspora : on being a folklorist in a Black studies department
  • Standing with others : folklorists in the midst of home
  • Disruptive folklore
  • Talking folklore : getting others to take the discipline seriously while remaining a serious folklorist
  • Afterword: Advancing folkloristics.