Narrative Culture, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2021 (Containing Women—Entanglements of Genre and Gender)

Narrative Culture claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space. Inviting contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, the journal seeks to offer a platform that integrates approaches spread across numerous disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. 

Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2021
Special Issue: Containing Women—Entanglements of Genre and Gender

Preface: #MeToo: Cri de Coeur and Cri de Corps (A Cry from the Heart and Body of a Woman)
Kay Turner

Introduction: Narrative Entanglements and Discursive Entrapments
JoAnn Conrad 

Taken into the Mountain: Cavernous and Categorical Entrapments
JoAnn Conrad

Female Madness and the Feminine Monstrous: Genre as Confinement and Genre as Affective Repository
Nataša Polgar

Refuge in the Rock: Chthonic Rescue and Other Narrations of Women in Peril
Margaret A. Mills

Architecture and Female Characterization in Three Tales of Evangeline
Christine A. Jones

Becoming a Version: The Case of Walter Anderson’s Studies of Yiddish Folk Narratives
Dani Schrire

Youth Films and the Nation: Imagining Obama’s US Foreign Policy in Disney’s Moana 
Katherine Whitehurst