Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin:
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1. Verfasser: Fulmer, Jacqueline (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Aldershot, England Ashgate ©2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index
1 - Impossible Stories for Impossible Conversations -- - Introduction -- - Parallel binaries, parallel subversions -- - Chapter overview -- - 2 - Rhetorical Indirection: Roots and Routes -- - Back to the beginning -- - Indirection in the context of previous criticism -- - Impossible conversations made possible -- - Indirection in folklore as an answer to censorship -- - Terms of indirection in African American, Irish, and postcolonial writing -- - Historical parallels -- - Loss of rights coinciding with suppression of language and culture -- - Obstacles to expression for African American and Irish women writers -- - Rediscovered gardens -- - 3 - Folk Women versus the Authorities -- - Throwing the binary back -- - Zora Neale Hurston: "He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind" -- - Mary Lavin: "Sly civility" from an Irish village -- - Censorship, condescension, and the spleen of a saint -- - Folk influences in Mary O'Grady -- - Mary battles the Otherworld -- - Morrison's ancestors and a giggling witch -- - Éilís Ní Dhuibhne : the wife, the witch, and the changeling -- - Fairy tales for a postmodern world -- - How to dump a goat -- - Unmaking the world in The Bray house
4. Otherworld Women on Sex and Religion -- - Sex advice from mermaids -- - Hurston's divine mermaid Erzulie -- - "Cleweless" : Lavin's Onny defies convention -- - Ní Dhuibhne's pub Mermaid -- - "The two shall be as one" : Morrison's seaside duo, Celestial and L -- - 5. Reproducing Wise Women -- - Folk women with "ancient properties" -- - Anti-Marys in Hurston and Lavin -- - Jenny as a younger wise woman and Virgin Mary figure in The Bray house -- - Paradise : Morrison's folk "Marys" -- - Ní Dhuibhne's midwife : delivering ambiguity -- - Morrison's midwives : freedom from the binaries within midwives in Paradise and a fetus named "Che" -- - 6. Final Indirections
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