Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation /

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Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meani...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moody-Turner, Shirley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race > Social aspects.
Literature and folklore.
Folklore in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Folklore.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Folklore dans la litterature.
Litterature et folklore > États-Unis.
Race > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Noirs americains > Folklore.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Literature and folklore > United States.
Race > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "By Custom and By Law" : Folklore and the Birth of Jim Crow
  • From Hawai'i to Hampton : Samuel Armstrong and the Unlikely Origins of Folklore Studies at the Hampton Institute
  • Recovering Folklore as a Site of Resistance : Anna Julia Cooper and the Hampton Folklore Society
  • Uprooting the Folk : Paul Laurence Dunbar's Critique of the Folk Ideal
  • "The Stolen Voice" : Charles Chesnutt, Whiteness, and the Politics of Folklore
  • Conclusion.

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