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Wishbone : reference and interpretation in Black folk narrative
- Title
- Wishbone : reference and interpretation in Black folk narrative / Laura C. Jarmon.
- Author
- Jarmon, Laura C., 1951-
- Publication
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | GR111.A47 J37 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxxix, 372 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Jarmon (English, U. of Tennessee, Martin) studies the history and attempts to trace the origins of several prevalent themes in African American folklore, using folk tale collections from the US and Africa. The themes link subjects with symbolic content, such as tar baby with binding and transcription and the skull with presence and propriety. An introduction presents Jarmon's methodology; her thesis is that these narratives are a type of modal discourse that is symbolized by the motifs of the wishbone and crossroads which she sees as emblematic of the concept of margins and reflective of a mood of indeterminacy. ^^^^ Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Folklore – Africa.
- Folklore – United States.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: a modal discourse -- Tar baby: binding and transcription -- Good sense: duty and ambivalence -- Buzzard: faith and paradox -- Pots and hoes: working and saving -- The skull: presence and propriety -- Cursing: sanction and mood -- Conclusion: humor and the joker.
- ISBN
- 1572332735
- 9781572332737
- LCCN
- 2002155368
- OCLC
- ocm51222173
- 51222173
- SCSB-1305980
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library