Author: Helen Wheeler Bassett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The International Folk-lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 ...
Author: Helen Wheeler Bassett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The International Folk-lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 ...
Author: Helen Wheeler Bassett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality
Author: Ronald LaMarr Sharps
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498586147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life—social, cultural, political, and economic. In pursuit of equality, African American movements interpreted folklore to reveal in their rhetoric the soul of a race and a path toward civilization. This book provides a comprehensive chronicle of these competing initiatives and their reception starting with the folklore society organized by Hampton Institute in 1893 and continuing through the early 1940s with the American Negro Academy, Fisk University graduates, William Hannibal Thomas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the Friends of Negro Freedom, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and blacks associated with the Communist Party USA. Disavowing a culture of fear, money, guns, and death, black folklorists in these movements exposed a racial inner life ranging from loving, loyal, and happy to imitative, tragic, spiritual, emotional, and creative. Each characterization of the race justified a distinct path and possible contributions to civilization. If unable to know their past, members of the movements and other folklorists were fearful that African Americans would be an anomaly among humanity.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498586147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life—social, cultural, political, and economic. In pursuit of equality, African American movements interpreted folklore to reveal in their rhetoric the soul of a race and a path toward civilization. This book provides a comprehensive chronicle of these competing initiatives and their reception starting with the folklore society organized by Hampton Institute in 1893 and continuing through the early 1940s with the American Negro Academy, Fisk University graduates, William Hannibal Thomas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the Friends of Negro Freedom, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and blacks associated with the Communist Party USA. Disavowing a culture of fear, money, guns, and death, black folklorists in these movements exposed a racial inner life ranging from loving, loyal, and happy to imitative, tragic, spiritual, emotional, and creative. Each characterization of the race justified a distinct path and possible contributions to civilization. If unable to know their past, members of the movements and other folklorists were fearful that African Americans would be an anomaly among humanity.
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
Author: Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 162846755X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
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 meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. Shirley Moody-Turner analyzes this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants—rather than passive observers—in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role have representations of black folklore played in constructing racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions? Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light and context, taking figures we thought we knew—such as Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 162846755X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
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 meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. Shirley Moody-Turner analyzes this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants—rather than passive observers—in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role have representations of black folklore played in constructing racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions? Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light and context, taking figures we thought we knew—such as Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history.
Annotated Bibliography World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Author: G. L. Dybwad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Folklore
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Author: Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814340482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814340482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Report of the National Museum
Author: United States National Museum
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Critical Theory and Performance
Author: Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068869
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068869
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance