Unsettling Narratives

Folklore’s Textual Geographies

James Thurgill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2026
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
9781837723638 (ISBN)

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This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between people, narratives and places as they emerge through belief, storytelling and ritual practice. Drawing on human geography, folkloristics and literary studies, it demonstrates how folk narratives inform and shape geographical imaginings, influencing lived experiences of actual-world environments. An examination of Yanagita Kunio’s (1910) Tōno Monogatari, a volume of 119 folktales from the northeast of Japan, highlights the formative role folk narratives play in shaping regional identities and cultural memory. Unsettling Narratives identifies folklore as a key process through which place acquires meaning, thereby facilitating a deeper engagement with the intersections of text, space and communal narratives. By emphasising the spatial significance of folkloric storytelling, this book provides new methodological and theoretical pathways for literary geographers to explore the co-constitution of narrative and place across local, regional and global scales.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Exordium
Introduction
Literary Geography
Approaching Folklore
Geography and Folklore
Folklore and Geography
Tōno Monogatari
Structure
Interspatiality
From Spatiality to Interspatiality
Interspatiality and folklore
Tōno Monogatari: An Interspatiality
Narrating Numinosity
Hinges
Coalescence
The Spatial Hinge
Locating Hinges
Ostension
Ostension, Narrative, Spatiality
Tōno Monogatari and Conditioned Ostension
Contours
Contours
Geobiographism
Tōno Monogatari: Memory and Landscapes
Constellations
Region
Folklore and Region
Folklore’s Constellations
Ecotypes
The Ecotype
Literary Geography and the Ecotype
Tōno Monogatari as Ecotype
Scribing
More-than-textual geographies?
Inscribing
Describing
Encounters
Intra-textual Encounters
An on the Ground Approach
Sites
Loops: A Postscript
Folklore Loops
The Tōno Monogatari Loop(s)
Iterations
Future Cycles
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Literary Geography: Theory and Practice
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781837723638 / 9781837723638
Zustand	Neuware