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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 207 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780754687139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3563 .F655 2007
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Contents:
Impossible Stories for Impossible Conversations -- Introduction -- Parallel binaries, parallel subversions -- Chapter overview -- 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 -- 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.
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 -- 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" --
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Impossible Stories for Impossible Conversations -- Introduction -- Parallel binaries, parallel subversions -- Chapter overview -- 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 -- 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.

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 -- 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" --

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