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Author Fulmer, Jacqueline, 1965-

Title Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin / Jacqueline Fulmer.

Publication Info. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 207 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
Contents 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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Summary 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.
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Language English.
Subject Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni.
Criticism and interpretation.
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, 1954-
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Lavin, Mary, 1912-1996 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lavin, Mary, 1912-1996.
Women and literature -- United States -- History.
Women and literature.
United States.
History.
Women and literature -- England -- History.
England.
Literature and folklore.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History.
Literature and folklore.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fulmer, Jacqueline, 1965- Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007 (DLC) 2007025771 (OCoLC)145732940
ISBN 9780754687139 (electronic book)
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