Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century

by Shelley Ingram (Editor), Willow G. Mullins (Editor)

Overview

A folkloristic engagement with the weather and its pervasiveness in our lives

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496844354
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	05/18/2023
Edition description:	Hardback
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shelley Ingram is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her essays have appeared in such edited collections and journals as African American Review and Food & Foodways. She is currently editor of the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. Willow G. Mullins is a lecturer in Celtic and Scottish studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of Felt and coauthor with Shelley Ingram and Todd Richardson of Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Editorial Reviews

This collection of essays is a fascinating and compelling compendium of the new and the old, the weird and the ordinary, the comforting and the upsetting--all from the unique perspective of folklore studies. Like the howling twister in The Wizard of Oz, Wait Five Minutes snatches us up and delivers us into a magical world always already colored by the hazy conditions of our everyday lives now made clear: the weather.--David Todd Lawrence, coauthor of When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

Wait Five Minutes represents a unique snapshot of vernacular responses to the emergent climate and weather issues of the new millennium.--Erika Brady, professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University

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