Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Folklore research enables us to read ancient folk narrative texts illuminated by what is known to us from the study of the present, including field work situations, contemporary social phenomena, as well as current theories. In this paper I want to read a Late Antique rabbinic text of a folk tale (conglomerate of international tale types AT 928 and AT 1689) in its historical context as a narrative dialogue between coloniser (represented by Roman emperor Hadrian) and colonised (represented by Jewish farmers in the Galilee). In accordance with post-colonial theory it can be shown that the discourse of the empire (in this case the Roman) is not crafted solely by the dominant centre (in this case the city of Rome), but is co-authored by the dominated margins of the empire.
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