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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Publisher

Indiana University Press

Year

2022

ISBN

9780253063786

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Folklore & Mythology

Index

Social Sciences

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