Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and LavinAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 207 strán (strany) Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, Jaqueline Fulmer argues that these authors often employ strategies of indirection, by way of expressions of folklore, when exploring unpopular topics, to attract readers who would otherwise reject the subject matter. |
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Roots and Routes | 19 |
Indirection in folklore as an answer to censorship | 26 |
Historical parallels | 39 |
Rediscovered gardens | 47 |
Sly civility from an Irish village | 60 |
Morrisons ancestors and a giggling witch | 74 |
How to dump a goat | 80 |
The wife the witch and the changeling | 88 |
Otherworld Women on Sex and Religion | 95 |
Reproducing Wise Women | 129 |
Final Indirections | 169 |
Correspondence with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne | 177 |
Works Cited | 183 |
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Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin Jacqueline Fulmer Zobrazenie úryvkov - 2007 |
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