The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics - Rilegato

Naithani, Sadhana

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ISBN 10: 1604734558 ISBN 13: 9781604734553

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2010

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In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani 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. Naithani 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. Naithani 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. The author 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 Story-Time of the British Empire is a bold argument for a twenty-first-century vision of folklore studies that is international in scope and that understands folklore as a transnational entity.

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An analysis of the folklore collected by imperials and colonials during the second empire

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• Editore: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1604734558
• ISBN 13: 9781604734553
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 145