03059nam 2200697 a 450 991054079890332120200520144314.01-003-06335-71-281-20850-797866112085090-7546-8713-9(CKB)1000000000401841(EBL)438661(OCoLC)606914337(SSID)ssj0000156391(PQKBManifestationID)11158318(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156391(PQKBWorkID)10144283(PQKB)11229056(MiAaPQ)EBC438661(Au-PeEL)EBL438661(CaPaEBR)ebr10209149(CaONFJC)MIL120850(PPN)238447650(EXLCZ)99100000000040184120070620d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFolk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin[electronic resource] /Jacqueline FulmerAldershot, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgatec20071 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-5537-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-198) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Impossible Stories for Impossible Conversations; 2 Rhetorical Indirection: Roots and Routes; 3 Folk Women versus the Authorities; 4 Otherworld Women on Sex and Religion; 5 Reproducing Wise Women; 6 Final Indirections; Appendix: Correspondence with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne; Works Cited; IndexFocusing on the lineage and traditions of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, Jacqueline Fulmer traces the line of descent from Mary Lavin to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and from Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison. She argues that these authors adopt strategies of indirection influenced by folklore, such as signifying, masking, sly civility, and the grotesque. Their magical and magisterial folk women characters entice readers toward controversial subjects.Women and literatureUnited StatesHistoryWomen and literatureEnglandHistoryLiterature and folkloreNarration (Rhetoric)HistoryStereotypes (Social psychology) in literatureWomen in literatureElectronic books.Women and literatureHistory.Women and literatureHistory.Literature and folklore.Narration (Rhetoric)History.Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.Women in literature.813/.54Fulmer Jacqueline1965-1189991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910540798903321Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin2755525UNINA