Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts
Frank de Caro, "Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts"
English | ISBN: 1496830768 | 2020 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1496830768 | 2020 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
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
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