TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fulmer,Jacqueline
TI  - Folk women and indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin /Jacqueline Fulmer
SN  - 9780754687139
AV  - PS3563 .F655 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Morrison, Toni
KW  - Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís,
KW  - Hurston, Zora Neale
KW  - Lavin, Mary,
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - England
KW  - Literature and folklore
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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" --; 2; b
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