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Folklore Recycled - Old Traditions in New Contexts (Paperback)
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Folklore Recycled - Old Traditions in New Contexts (Paperback)
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Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts starts from the
proposition that folklore - usually thought of in its historical
social context as "oral tradition" - is easily appropriated and
recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in
their fiction or poetry, taking plots, as an example, from a
folktale. Visual artists may concentrate on depicting folk figures
or events, like a ritual or a ceremony. Tourism officials may
promote a place through advertising its traditional ways. Folklore
may play a role in intellectual conceptualizations, as when
nationalists use folklore to promote symbolic unity. Folklore
Recycled discusses the larger issue of folklore being recycled into
nonfolk contexts and proceeds to look at a number of instances of
repurposing. Colson Whitehead's novel John Henry Days is a literary
text that recycles folklore but does so in a manner that examines a
number of other uses of the American folk figure John Henry. The
nineteenth-century members of the Louisiana branch of the American
Folklore Society and the author Lyle Saxon in the twentieth century
used African American folklore to establish personal connections to
the world of the southern plantation and buttress their own social
status. The writer Lafcadio Hearn wrote about folklore to
strengthen his insider credentials wherever he lived. Photographers
in Louisiana leaned on folklife to solidify local identity and to
promote government programs and industry. Promoters of "unorthodox"
theories about history have used folklore as historical document.
Americans in Mexico took an interest in folklore for acculturation,
for tourism promotion, for interior decoration, and for political
ends. All of the examples throughout the book demonstrate the
durability and continued relevance of folklore in every context it
appears.
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