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THEORIZING FOLKLORE FROM THE MARGINS Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology David A. McDonald, editor THEORIZING FOLKLORE FROM THE MARGINS CRITICAL AND ETHICAL APPROACHES Q E D I T E D B Y S O L I M A R O T E R O A N D M I N T Z I A U A N D A M A R T Í N E Z - R I V E R A Indiana University Press This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress. o rg © 2021 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Cataloging information is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-253-05606-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-253-05607-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-253-05608-5 (ebook) First printing 2021 This volume is dedicated to our intellectual and family ancestors, who opened, cleared, and created the roads on which we now walk. CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Part I. Critical Paths Introduction: How Does Folklore Find Its Voice in the Twenty-First Century? An Offering/Invitation from the Margins / Solimar Otero and Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera 3 1. White Traditioning and Bruja Epistemologies: Rebuilding the House of USAmerican Folklore Studies / Rachel V. González-Martin 22 2. Un Tumbe Ch’ixi: Incorporating Afro-Descendant Ideas into an Andean Anticolonial Methodology / Juan Eduardo Wolf 42 3. Disrupting the Archive / Miriam Melton-Villanueva and Sheila Bock 62 Part II. Framing the Narrative 4. Afrolatinx Folklore and Representation: Interstices and Antiauthenticity / Solimar Otero 83 5. Behaving like Relatives: Or, We Don’t Sit Around and Talk Politics with Strangers / Rhonda R. Dass 103 6. Political Protest, Ideology, and Social Criticism in Wolof Folk Poetry / Cheikh Tidiane Lo 113 7. Sugar Cane Alley: Teaching the Concept of “Group” from a Critical Folkloristics Perspective / Katherine Borland 131 8. movimiento armado / armed movement / Itzel Guadalupe Garcia 157 Part III. Visualizing the Present 9. Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: Trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba / Mabel Cuesta 169 viii Contents 10. “¿Batata? ¡Batata!”: Examining Puerto Rican Visual Folk Expression in Times of Adversity / Gloria M. Colom Braña 190 11. Forming Strands and Ties in the Knotted Atlantic: Methodologies of Color and Practice of Beadwork in Lucumí Religion / Martin A. Tsang 220 12. Of Blithe Spirits: Narratives of Rebellion, Violence, and Cosmic Memory in Haitian Vodou / Alexander Fernández 238 Part IV. Placing Community 13. “No One Would Believe Us”: An Autoethnography of Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict Zone / Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera 257 14. “La Sierra Juárez en Riverside”: The Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition on a University Campus / Xóchitl Chávez 274 15. Hidden Thoughts and Exposed Bodies: Art, Everyday Life, and Queering Cuban Masculinities / Cory W. Thorne 293 16. Complexifying Identity through Disability: Critical Folkloristic Perspectives on Being a Parent and Experiencing Illness and Disability through My Child / Phyllis M. May-Machunda 313 Index 335 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Community is central to what we do and who we are as scholars, activists, and individuals. This work is the result of a multiplicity and diversity of communities that supported us through Theorizing Folklore from the Margins’s different stages of conceptualization, creation, and production. To some degree, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins would not have come to fruition without John Nieto-Phillips’s invitation, in 2017, to edit a special volume of Latinx folklore for Chiricú Journal. The seeds for this project were planted while we worked with the Chiricú Journal community, as we were able to think of differ- ent paths for folklore studies and play with ideas that found a home in this volume. At Indiana University Press, we would first like to thank Janice Frisch, who believed in this project since the beginning and brought us into the press. We are also thankful to our editor Jennika Baines and the whole team at Indiana Univer- sity Press for their hard work and willingness to collaborate with us to complete our vision. We also want to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their detailed comments and suggestions, as they made this volume stronger. We would also like to thank our authors, as Theorizing Folklore from the Mar- gins would not be possible without their contributions. We are grateful that they trusted us to curate their stories, ideas, and creations with care, respect, and love. Many individuals communicated vital suggestions to us as we vetted the work at the American Folklore Society annual conferences. Norma Cantú, Olivia Ca- daval, and Guillermo de los Reyes gave particularly insightful interpretations of this collaborative project at different stages of its development at the meet- ings. We also appreciate the support of the Cultural Diversity Committee; the Chicana/o section; and the Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, and Caribeño section in providing venues for related discussions aimed to include scholars of color in AFS leadership and projects. ix
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