Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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More than one hundred years after the American Civil War, people in the South still flame with anger and weep with sorrow when they tell the stories of what befell their families and neighbours. The general mythology is that the Northern general William Tecumseh Sherman, with wanton destruction, razed the whole South. However, local legends and family narratives, in which women play an especially active role, show the Southerners in effect taming or civilising Sherman or else tricking him, and these narratives function in a variety of ways to preserve or restore cultural pride. The family narratives, with their descriptions of hardship and endurance, also serve as standards against which the narrators assess their own lives.
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