Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin [[electronic resource] /] / Jacqueline Fulmer

• Autore: Fulmer Jacqueline <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto topico: Women and literature - United States - History; Women and literature - England - History; Literature and folklore; Narration (Rhetoric) - History; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; Women in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Focusing 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin
• ISBN: 1-003-06335-7; 1-281-20850-7; 9786611208509; 0-7546-8713-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458110503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II