We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery Lindahl Carl
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery Lindahl Carl What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? What insights and…
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We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery Lindahl Carl
What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences?
Contributors include scholars from the United States and Japan who have long worked with disaster-stricken communities or are disaster survivors themselves; individual chapters address Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Maria, and two earthquakes in Japan, including the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011. Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ethnographic work?We Are All Survivors is a collection of essays exploring the role of folklore in the wake of disaster. Adapted from a 2017 special issue of
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