1st Edition
Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, N Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin
By Jacqueline Fulmer
Copyright 2007
215 Pages
by
Routledge
215 Pages
by
Routledge
215 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, the author argues that these authors often employ strategies of indirection, via folkloric expression, when exploring unpopular topics. This strategy holds the attention of readers who would otherwise reject the subject matter. The author traces the line of descent from Mary Lavin to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and from... Read more
Contents: Impossible stories for impossible conversations; Rhetorical indirection: roots and routes; Folk women versus the authorities; Otherworld women on sex and religion; Reproducing wise women; Final indirections; Appendix; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Jacqueline Fulmer
