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Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations

Name: Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations
Brand: University of Tennessee Press
SKU: 9781572331525
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Selfhood And Cultural Tradition In Nineteenth

Autor: Karen E. Beardslee

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Editura: University of Tennessee Press

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In this provocative study of eight novels, Karen E. Beardslee asserts that American writers often en...

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Autor

Karen E. Beardslee

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

232

EAN

9781572331525

ISBN

9781572331525

Enbook ID

06349842

Editura

University of Tennessee Press

Greutate

456

Dimensiuni

170 x 231 x 18

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In this provocative study of eight novels, Karen E. Beardslee asserts that American writers often engage with folk traditions as a necessary part of their characters' journeys to wholeness. Focusing not only on African American, Native American, and Hispanic American cultures but also on women's culture, Beardslee traces the connections between folk legacies and the search for selfhood in both nineteenth-and twentieth-century works.Within each chapter, a novel by a contemporary author and one from an earlier period are brought together: Whitney Otto's How to Make an American Quilt and Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing; David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman; Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories; and Roberta Fernandez's Intaglio and Maria Cristina Mena's The Birth of the God of War. These pairings are not based on matters of intertextuality or influence but are chosen according to the folk groups to which the novels' characters belong. This strategy enables Beardslee to trace the particular legacies that inform the work of the twentieth-century authors.As Beardslee notes, contemporary texts and the critical commentary on them have focused, until fairly recently, on the "search for self" in male (usually white) characters. Such works have also positioned that search outside the character's family or community and have usually emphasized its futility. With the growing shift toward multiculturalism in fiction, however, folk traditions have come to play an increasingly crucial role in characters' journeys to self-awareness as well as in the success of those journeys.Thoroughly researched andcogently argued, this book makes a significant contribution to the study of both folklore and literature as it explores the relationship between knowing one's cultural heritage and achieving a sense of self that is whole instead of fragmented, connected instead of drifting.