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Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts
1496830768 epub Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts starts from the proposition that folkloreusually thought of in its historical social context as oral traditionis 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 Whiteheads novel Read more