Selected Bibliography 2000-2010

Beardslee, Karen E. Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2001.

Bell, Bernard W. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2004.

Bryant, Jerry H. 'Born in a Mighty Bad Land': The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.

De Caro, Frank, and Rosan A. Jordan. Re-Situating Folklore: Folk Contexts and Twentieth-Century Literature and Art. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2004.

Dundes, Alan and Mieder, Wolfgang. The Kushmaker and Other Essays on Folk Speech and Folk Humor. Burlington: U of Vermont, 2008.

Fulmer, Jacqueline. Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

Lamothe, Daphne. Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008.

López Morín, José R. The Legacy of Américo Paredes. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 2006.

Morris, Nicola. The Golem in Jewish American Literature: Risks and Responsibilities in the Fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern. NY: Peter Lang, 2007.

Mullen, Patrick B. The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2008.

Nicholls, David G. Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000.

Perez, Domino R. There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture. Austin: U of Texas P, 2008.

Prahlad, Anand. ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.

Quinn, E. Moore. Irish American Folklore in New England. Bethesda, MD: Academia, 2009.

Saldívar, Ramón. The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006.

Sanders, Lynn M. Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2003.

Stallings, L. H. Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007.

Watts, Linda S. Encyclopedia of American Folklore. NY: Facts on File, 2007.

Weaver-Zercher, David. The Amish in the American Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001.

Zauditu-Selassie, K. African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2009.

Selected Bibliography 2011-Present

De Caro, Frank. Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Context. Jackson: U P of Mississippi, 2013.

Jackson, Jason B. Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2013.

Martin, Kameelah L. Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Moody-Turner, Shirley. Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2013.

Olson, Greg. Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2012.

Oring, Elliott. Just Folklore: Analysis, Interpretation. Los Angeles, CA: Cantilever, 2012.

Palmer, Bill. Latino Folklore and Culture. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest, 2013.

Retman, Sonnet. Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011.

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