We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery

Author:   Carl Lindahl ,  Michael Dylan Foster ,  Kate Parker Horigan ,  Yutaka Suga
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253063762


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   06 September 2022
Format:   Paperback
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What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? 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. 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. Adapted from a 2017 special issue of Fabula (from the International Society for Folk Narrative Research), the book includes a revised introduction, an additional chapter with original illustrations, and a new conclusion considering how folklorists are documenting the COVID-19 pandemic. We Are All Survivors bears witness to survivors' expressions of remembrance, grieving, and healing.

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Author:   Carl Lindahl ,  Michael Dylan Foster ,  Kate Parker Horigan ,  Yutaka Suga
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.281kg
ISBN:  

9780253063762


ISBN 10:   0253063760
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   06 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Preface 1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors, by Carl Lindahl 2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of ""Empathy"" after the Earthquake, by Yutaka Suga 3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting After Disaster: Listening to Older Adults, by Yoko Taniguchi 4. The Story of Cultural Assets and their Rescue: A First-Hand Report from Tohoku, by Kōji Katō 5. Critical Empathy: A Survivor's Study of Disaster, by Kate Parker Horigan 6. Empathy and Speaking Out, by Amy Shuman 7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage, by Michael Dylan Foster 8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months After María, by Gloria M. Colom Braña Conclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and ""Folklife's First Responders,"" by Georgia Ellie Dassler and Kate Parker Horigan"

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As catastrophes proliferate around us, We Are All Survivors provides a timely, intimate, and empathetic look at disasters and recovery. Written by a group of outstanding folklorists, most of whom have themselves faced the devastation of traumatic events, this volume explores the role folkloristics has played and can play in disaster stricken communities. We Are All Survivors is a book of thought, methodological skill, and heart. -- Diane Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University


Author Information

Carl Lindahl is Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor in English at the University of Houston, cofounder of the disaster response project Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, and founder of the earthquake response project Memwa Ayisyen / Haitian Memory. He is author (with B. J. Ancelet and M. Gaudet) of Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita. Michael Dylan Foster is Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. He is author of The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore and co-editor (with Lisa Gilman) of UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kate Parker Horigan is Associate Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University. She is author of Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative.

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