We Are All Survivors
eBook - ePub

We Are All Survivors

Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

We Are All Survivors

Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery

About this book

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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Yes, you can access We Are All Survivors by Carl Lindahl,Michael Dylan Foster,Kate Parker Horigan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface / Michael Dylan Foster
  6. 1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors / Carl Lindahl
  7. 2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of ā€œEmpathyā€ after the Earthquake / Yutaka Suga
  8. 3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting after Disaster: Listening to Older Adults / Yoko Taniguchi
  9. 4. The Story of Cultural Assets and Their Rescue: A Firsthand Report from Tohoku / Kōji Katō
  10. 5. Critical Empathy: A Survivorā€™s Study of Disaster / Kate Parker Horigan
  11. 6. Empathy and Speaking Out / Amy Shuman
  12. 7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage / Michael Dylan Foster
  13. 8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months after Marƭa / Gloria M. Colom BraƱa
  14. Conclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and ā€œFolklifeā€™s First Respondersā€ / Georgia Ellie Dassler, with Kate Parker Horigan
  15. Index