Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies

Ingram, Shelley; Mullins, Willow G.; Richardson, Todd

ISBN 10: 149682296X / ISBN 13: 9781496822963

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2019

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Synopsis:

In Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies, authors Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins, and Todd Richardson talk about things folklorists don’t usually talk about. They ponder the tacit aspects of folklore and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated expectations placed upon people whenever they talk about folklore and how those expectations necessarily affect the folklore they are talking about.

The book’s chapters are wide-ranging in subject and style, yet they all orbit the idea that much of folklore, both as a phenomenon and as a field, hinges upon unspoken or absent assumptions about who people are and what people do. The authors articulate theories and methodologies for making sense of these unexpressed absences, and, in the process, they offer critical new insights into discussions of race, authenticity, community, literature, popular culture, and scholarly authority. Taken as a whole, the book represents a new and challenging way of looking again at the ways groups come together to make meaning.

In addition to the main chapters, the book also includes eight “interstitials,” shorter studies that consider underappreciated aspects of folklore. These discussions, which range from a consideration of knitting in public to the ways that invisibility shapes an internet meme, are presented as questions rather than answers, encouraging readers to think about what more folklore and folklore studies might discover if only practitioners chose to look at their subjects from angles more cognizant of these unspoken gaps.

About the Author: Shelley Ingram is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between folklore and literature, including its connections to ethnography and race, folk narrative, food and food culture, and audience reception.

Willow G. Mullins teaches English and folklore at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research centers on material and visual culture, music, and the immanence of the everyday.

Todd Richardson is associate professor in the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Goodrich Scholarship Program, which provides full-tuition scholarships and challenging curriculum in cultural diversity to low-income Nebraska residents.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good