The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics
The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics
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Abstract
This book examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and 1950. Much of this work was accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists, yet these oral narratives and poetic expressions of non-Europeans were transcribed, translated, published, and discussed internationally. The book analyzes the role of folklore scholarship in the construction of colonial cultural politics as well as in the conception of international folklore studies. Since most folklore scholarship and cultural history focuses exclusively on specific nations, there is little study of cross-cultural phenomena about empire and/or postcoloniality. The book argues that connecting cultural histories, especially in relation to previously colonized countries, is essential to understanding those countries’ folklore, as these folk traditions result from both internal and European influence. It also makes clear the role folklore and its study played in shaping intercultural perceptions that continue to exist in the academic and popular realms today. The book makes a bold argument for a twenty-first century vision of folklore studies that is international in scope and which understands folklore as a transnational entity.
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Front Matter
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Fields: Colonialism, Folklore, and Postcolonial Theory
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Motive: The Contexts of Colonial Folklorists
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Method: The Striving of Colonial Folklorists
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Theory: Colonial Theories of Folklore
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The Story-Time of the British Empire: Transnational Folkloristics as Theory of Cultural Disjunctions
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