{"product_id":"theorizing-folklore-from-the-margins-critical-and-ethical-approaches-paperback-softback-9780253056078","title":"Theorizing Folklore from the Margins; Critical and Ethical Approaches (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253056078","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCritical and Ethical Approaches\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSolimar Otero (Edited by), Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera (Edited by), Rachel V. González-Martin (Contributions by), Juan Eduardo Wolf (Contributions by), Miriam Melton-Villanueva (Contributions by), Sheila Bock (Contributions by), Solimar Otero (Contributions by), Rhonda R. Dass (Contributions by), Cheikh Tidiane Lo (Contributions by), Katherine Borland (Contributions by), Itzel Guadalupe Garcia (Contributions by), Mabel Cuesta (Contributions by), Gloria M. Colom Braña (Contributions by), Martin A. Tsang (Contributions by), Alexander Fernández (Contributions by), Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera (Contributions by), Xóchitl Chávez (Contributions by), Cory W. Thorne (Contributions by), Phyllis M. May-Machunda (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253056078\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 25 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative collection of essays that maps the future of Folklore studies. This volume is indeed an important, relevant, ground-breaking contribution to Folklore scholarship. The polyphony of voices that composes \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e argues that it is necessary to study the ways in which the creators of folk culture utilize their cultural production and expressions that allow them to create safe spaces that eventually become spaces for liberation and understanding of elements such as race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, (dis)ability, and national identity.\"—Guillermo De Los Reyes, Editor of Gender, Sexuality, and Policy; and author of Getting the Third Degree: Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History, University of Houston\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e actively resists monolithic notions attached to cultures and groups through a collection of powerful, multi-authored chapters and \"proposes, invites, and offers alternative paths\" in folklore studies. This stellar, thought-provoking volume reminds us authority rests with the voices of the people positioned at the margins and that the margins are alive \u003ci\u003econ poder y cultura\u003c\/i\u003e (with power and culture) and thriving because of it.\"—Wanda Addison, Professor, Department of Arts and Humanities, National University\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e is the book I have wanted since the moment I first learned folklore was a thing. Solimar Otero and Mintzi Martinez-Rivera have assembled a collection that does more than reposition BIPOC theorizing from the margins to the center; it demonstrates that our theory has always been \u003ci\u003ecentral\u003c\/i\u003e to a more historically aware, self-critical, and ethically grounded folklore project. Further, this book shows us that the contributions of marginalized communities to critical theoretical conversations are not new. This book, then, is a bridge between the past, present, and future of a renewed Folklore studies in which those once silenced voices demand and deserve a new audience.\"—David Todd Lawrence, coauthor of When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri, University of St. Thomas\u003cbr\u003e \"This powerful collection of 16 critical essays takes aim at the myriad forms in whichhate, violence, othering, disenfranchisement, etc., manifest in social life as the resultof dominant power structures supported by the \"legacies of white supremacy,homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, ableism, and other injustices and forms ofdiscrimination\" (19). It is these power structures, among others, that have keptcertain individuals and communities at the margins. The \"margins,\" as presented in thebook, vary by author and range from the physical (such as prisons) to the symbolic (asin the intersections between methodologies and ideas). . . . The result is an illuminating, moving, and reflexivity-inducing work that takes us into and through very different marginal worlds \"among, and with, Mexican, Wolof, Native American, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Haitian, Martinican, Andean, North American, African Diaspora, and LGBTQI folk cultures and communities\"(13).\"—Julián Antonio Carrillo, University of New Mexico, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore and Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The experience of living in hostile conditions for cultural, social, political, or economic reasons has redefined communities in crisis. The curated works in \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e offer clear and feasible suggestions for how to ethically engage in the study of folklore with marginalized populations. By focusing on issues of critical race and ethnic studies, decolonial and antioppressive methodologies, and gender and sexuality studies, contributors employ a wide variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches. In doing so, they reflect the transdisciplinary possibilities of Folklore studies. \u003cbr\u003e By bridging the gap between theory and practice, \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Folklore from the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e confirms that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Critical Paths\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction: How does Folklore find its voice in the 21st century? An offering\/invitation from the margins\u003cbr\u003e 1. White Traditioning and Bruja Epistemologies: Rebuilding the House of USAmerican Folklore Studies\u003cbr\u003e 2. Un Tumbe Ch'ixi: Incorporating Afro-descendant Ideas into an Andean Anti-Colonial Methodology\u003cbr\u003e 3. Disrupting the Archive\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Framing the Narrative\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e4. Afrolatinx Folklore and Visual Representation: Interstices and Anti-Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Behaving Like Relatives: Or we don't sit around and talk about politics with strangers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Political Protest, Ideology, and Social Criticism in Wolof Folk Poetry\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sugar Cane Alley: Teaching the Concept of \"Group\" from a Critical Folkloristics Perspective\u003cbr\u003e 8. movimiento armado\/armed movement\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Visualizing the Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e9. Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: Trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"¿Batata? ¡Batata!\": Examining Puerto Rican Visual Folk Expression in Times of Adversities\u003cbr\u003e 11. Forming Strands and Ties in the Knotted Atlantic: Methodologies of Color and Practice of Beadwork in Lukumí Religion\u003cbr\u003e 12. Of Blithe Spirits: Narratives of Rebellion, Violence, and Cosmic Memory in Haitian Vodou\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Placing Community\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e13. \"No one would believe us\": An Auto-Ethnography of Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict\u003cbr\u003e 14. \"\u003ci\u003eLa Sierra Juárez en Riverside\u003c\/i\u003e\": \u003ci\u003eThe Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition\u003c\/i\u003e on a university campus\u003cbr\u003e 15. Hidden thoughts and exposed bodies: art, everyday life, and queering Cuban masculinities\u003cbr\u003e 16. Complexifying Identity through Disability: Critical Folkloristic Perspectives on Being a Parent and Experiencing Illness \u0026amp; Disability through My Child\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525340983576,"sku":"9780253056078","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theorizing-folklore-from-the-margins-critical-and-ethical-approaches-paperback-softback-9780253056078","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}