Diane Tye
Biographic Data
| ID | 199931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Tye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Tye |
| SIGNATURE | TYE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Eating Your Path”: Fairy Lore and Scarcity in Newfoundland and Labrador
My interest here is in how Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have used folklore, specifically fairy lore, to think about life lived in the context of a pervasive history of scarcity. Extending to fairy traditions Dorothy Noyes’s argument that oral folktales collected in the nineteenth century represent “a space of analysis and debate among poor people evaluating their life options” (Noyes 2016: 300), I ask how fairy lore in Newfoundland and Labrad…
“Blanche Isn’t Folklore”: Reflections on Ethnography as Relationship
Searching to identify positive, constructive ways forward in the face of folkloristics’ colonialist past, here I return to fieldwork I completed on local characters in my home community of Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1986-87 near the beginning of my folklore career. In reflecting on the applicability of Indigenist research as outlined by Shawn Wilson (2008, 2019) to conventional folklore collecting practices, I consider ways the ethnography I conduct…
Introduction: Difference and Dialogism in Family Narratives
As a primary generator and transmitter of expressive culture, the family is an important source for folklorists. Nevertheless, our dependence on family often has gone unrecognized and unproblematized in folklore scholarship. Enlarging the scope of family folklore beyond an identified, largely celebratory core to include other considerations of family narrative, we complicate folkloristic concepts of group, genre, and performance. Like any other g…
When Mary Went through the Hole: Constructing and Contesting Individual and Family Identity through Narrative
This article explores how a brother and sister, now in their eighties, position themselves in their stories based on an episodic childhood memory. It considers the narratives as important resources for the tellers' identifying of both self and family and explores how sometimes conflicting accounts based on childhood memories, and shaped by adult interpretations, connect and separate family members, help individuals articulate who they are, and su…
“Court from Away but Marry Close to Home”: Women, Marriage and Interpersonal Relations in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
Belonging is important in Newfoundland and Labrador but with its long history of patrilocality, where and to whom have women belonged? Here we consider how women who married into new families and communities in the Placentia Bay area of the province over a fifty year period (1943-1993) negotiated a place for themselves. The women, sometimes in complicity with their mothers-in-law, managed to create physical and social space through a variety of i…
Lobster Tales: Narratives of Food, Past, and Place in Maritime Canada
In Canada's Maritime Provinces, lobster is the food of tourism. Featured in countless guidebooks, cookbooks and restaurant ads, lobster beckons visitors to the region. Later, represented in as many forms as souvenirs, it signifies their trip, offering tangible proof that they have experienced-and tasted-the "real" place. However, as George Lewis (1989) argues is the case in Maine, residents of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick h…
In Honour of Counterhegemony Man
A Poor Man's Meal”: M olasses in A tlantic C anada
Part of an early trade triangle that linked Atlantic Canada to the West Indies through the exchange of fish, molasses was integral to the survival of some of the region's earliest settlers. Throughout the nineteenth century, molasses was a common ingredient in everyday and festive baking, a sweetener in tea, and a part of many remedies. Most commonly, molasses was served on bread as an accompaniment to, or a substitute for, a meal. Molasses fille…
On Their Own: Contemporay Legends of Women Alone in the Urban Landscape
This article explores the tension between women’s efforts to find time for themselves and traditional culture’s strong directives against women spending any time alone. Drawing on twenty-one contemporary legends from the Snopes website ( http://www.snopes.com ) that feature solitary female protagonists, it argues that the narratives demonstrate a gendered contestation of public space. Set in cars, hotels, shopping malls and in cyberspace, locatio…
Contested Geographies
Regards vers l’avenir
Looking Forward
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Gender, resistance and play
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada. Edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 306, photographs, drawings, editors' concluding statement, references, index. $45.00 cloth) The aim of the editors of Undisciplined Women was to redress Canadian folklore studies' tendency to both neglect women's traditions and ignore feminist perspectives (x). This is an important project, a…
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Lessons from "Undisciplined" Ethnography: The Case of Jean D. Heffernan
“Is It a Good Thing?”: Martha Stewart and Homemaking
Martha Stewart Omnimedia is a tremendously successful enterprise disseminating homemaking advice through books, magazines, newspaper columns and television programmes. In the tradition of works like Janice Radway’s feminist analysis of women’s romance novels, a study that privileges audience voices, this article examines a popular culture form aimed at homemakers. Relying on interviews with five homemakers who watch Martha Stewart on television o…
‘A Very Lone Worker’: Woman-Centred Thoughts on Helen Creighton’s Career as a Folklorist
This paper considers the relationship of gender to Helen Creighton’s work and to her place within Canadian folkloristics. Her conception of folklore techniques — that translated into what and how she collected and how she disseminated those materials — as well as her reception by public and academie audiences, are linked in part to societal and self definitions of appropriate female behavior. As her work is now being evaluated in new ways and adm…
Narrative, Gender and Marginality: The Case Study of Ella Lauchner Smith
When Ella L. Smith joined the history department of Mount Allison University during World War II, she was one of the few women on faculty and was soon to become the only female acting department head of her day. After her retirement from teaching, Smith remained an active member of the university community, managing a campus book store. Throughout her lifetime Ella Smith represented one of Mount Allison’s most colourful characters. Part of the un…
Local Character Anecdotes: A Nova Scotia Case Study
character anecdotes represent a significant resource within oral narrative repertoires of many regions, communities, and individual performers (e.g. Botlein 1947; Cochrane 1987; and Gwyndaf 1981), yet folklorists know very little about even the basics of local character anecdote exchange. For example, where, when and by whom are local character anecdotes told? Do they share common thematic and structural characteristics? Is humour a criterion? Wh…
Aspects of the Local Character Phenomenon in a Nova Scotian Community
From urban street gangs to University departments, most if not ail small group contexts hve their "characters": larger-than-life individuals who stand out from others in the group. While at first glance these minor nonconformists may appear to be anomalies who hve little to do with group structure or folklore, upon doser investigation they provide a contemporary illustration of Barbara Babcock-Abrahams's observation concerning tricksters: ". . .t…
Gender, resistance and play
A Poor Man's Meal”: M olasses in A tlantic C anada
Part of an early trade triangle that linked Atlantic Canada to the West Indies through the exchange of fish, molasses was integral to the survival of some of the region's earliest settlers. Throughout the nineteenth century, molasses was a common ingredient in everyday and festive baking, a sweetener in tea, and a part of many remedies. Most commonly, molasses was served on bread as an accompaniment to, or a substitute for, a meal. Molasses fille…
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada. Edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 306, photographs, drawings, editors' concluding statement, references, index. $45.00 cloth) The aim of the editors of Undisciplined Women was to redress Canadian folklore studies' tendency to both neglect women's traditions and ignore feminist perspectives (x). This is an important project, a…
Local Character Anecdotes: A Nova Scotia Case Study
character anecdotes represent a significant resource within oral narrative repertoires of many regions, communities, and individual performers (e.g. Botlein 1947; Cochrane 1987; and Gwyndaf 1981), yet folklorists know very little about even the basics of local character anecdote exchange. For example, where, when and by whom are local character anecdotes told? Do they share common thematic and structural characteristics? Is humour a criterion? Wh…
Introduction: Difference and Dialogism in Family Narratives
As a primary generator and transmitter of expressive culture, the family is an important source for folklorists. Nevertheless, our dependence on family often has gone unrecognized and unproblematized in folklore scholarship. Enlarging the scope of family folklore beyond an identified, largely celebratory core to include other considerations of family narrative, we complicate folkloristic concepts of group, genre, and performance. Like any other g…
Lobster Tales: Narratives of Food, Past, and Place in Maritime Canada
In Canada's Maritime Provinces, lobster is the food of tourism. Featured in countless guidebooks, cookbooks and restaurant ads, lobster beckons visitors to the region. Later, represented in as many forms as souvenirs, it signifies their trip, offering tangible proof that they have experienced-and tasted-the "real" place. However, as George Lewis (1989) argues is the case in Maine, residents of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick h…
Aspects of the Local Character Phenomenon in a Nova Scotian Community
From urban street gangs to University departments, most if not ail small group contexts hve their "characters": larger-than-life individuals who stand out from others in the group. While at first glance these minor nonconformists may appear to be anomalies who hve little to do with group structure or folklore, upon doser investigation they provide a contemporary illustration of Barbara Babcock-Abrahams's observation concerning tricksters: ". . .t…
Local Character Anecdotes: A Nova Scotia Case Study
character anecdotes represent a significant resource within oral narrative repertoires of many regions, communities, and individual performers (e.g. Botlein 1947; Cochrane 1987; and Gwyndaf 1981), yet folklorists know very little about even the basics of local character anecdote exchange. For example, where, when and by whom are local character anecdotes told? Do they share common thematic and structural characteristics? Is humour a criterion? Wh…
Narrative, Gender and Marginality: The Case Study of Ella Lauchner Smith
When Ella L. Smith joined the history department of Mount Allison University during World War II, she was one of the few women on faculty and was soon to become the only female acting department head of her day. After her retirement from teaching, Smith remained an active member of the university community, managing a campus book store. Throughout her lifetime Ella Smith represented one of Mount Allison’s most colourful characters. Part of the un…
‘A Very Lone Worker’: Woman-Centred Thoughts on Helen Creighton’s Career as a Folklorist
This paper considers the relationship of gender to Helen Creighton’s work and to her place within Canadian folkloristics. Her conception of folklore techniques — that translated into what and how she collected and how she disseminated those materials — as well as her reception by public and academie audiences, are linked in part to societal and self definitions of appropriate female behavior. As her work is now being evaluated in new ways and adm…
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Lessons from "Undisciplined" Ethnography: The Case of Jean D. Heffernan
“Is It a Good Thing?”: Martha Stewart and Homemaking
Martha Stewart Omnimedia is a tremendously successful enterprise disseminating homemaking advice through books, magazines, newspaper columns and television programmes. In the tradition of works like Janice Radway’s feminist analysis of women’s romance novels, a study that privileges audience voices, this article examines a popular culture form aimed at homemakers. Relying on interviews with five homemakers who watch Martha Stewart on television o…
Gender, resistance and play
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada. Edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 306, photographs, drawings, editors' concluding statement, references, index. $45.00 cloth) The aim of the editors of Undisciplined Women was to redress Canadian folklore studies' tendency to both neglect women's traditions and ignore feminist perspectives (x). This is an important project, a…
Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada
Regards vers l’avenir
Looking Forward
Contested Geographies
On Their Own: Contemporay Legends of Women Alone in the Urban Landscape
This article explores the tension between women’s efforts to find time for themselves and traditional culture’s strong directives against women spending any time alone. Drawing on twenty-one contemporary legends from the Snopes website ( http://www.snopes.com ) that feature solitary female protagonists, it argues that the narratives demonstrate a gendered contestation of public space. Set in cars, hotels, shopping malls and in cyberspace, locatio…
In Honour of Counterhegemony Man
A Poor Man's Meal”: M olasses in A tlantic C anada
Part of an early trade triangle that linked Atlantic Canada to the West Indies through the exchange of fish, molasses was integral to the survival of some of the region's earliest settlers. Throughout the nineteenth century, molasses was a common ingredient in everyday and festive baking, a sweetener in tea, and a part of many remedies. Most commonly, molasses was served on bread as an accompaniment to, or a substitute for, a meal. Molasses fille…
Lobster Tales: Narratives of Food, Past, and Place in Maritime Canada
In Canada's Maritime Provinces, lobster is the food of tourism. Featured in countless guidebooks, cookbooks and restaurant ads, lobster beckons visitors to the region. Later, represented in as many forms as souvenirs, it signifies their trip, offering tangible proof that they have experienced-and tasted-the "real" place. However, as George Lewis (1989) argues is the case in Maine, residents of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick h…
“Court from Away but Marry Close to Home”: Women, Marriage and Interpersonal Relations in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
Belonging is important in Newfoundland and Labrador but with its long history of patrilocality, where and to whom have women belonged? Here we consider how women who married into new families and communities in the Placentia Bay area of the province over a fifty year period (1943-1993) negotiated a place for themselves. The women, sometimes in complicity with their mothers-in-law, managed to create physical and social space through a variety of i…
Introduction: Difference and Dialogism in Family Narratives
As a primary generator and transmitter of expressive culture, the family is an important source for folklorists. Nevertheless, our dependence on family often has gone unrecognized and unproblematized in folklore scholarship. Enlarging the scope of family folklore beyond an identified, largely celebratory core to include other considerations of family narrative, we complicate folkloristic concepts of group, genre, and performance. Like any other g…
When Mary Went through the Hole: Constructing and Contesting Individual and Family Identity through Narrative
This article explores how a brother and sister, now in their eighties, position themselves in their stories based on an episodic childhood memory. It considers the narratives as important resources for the tellers' identifying of both self and family and explores how sometimes conflicting accounts based on childhood memories, and shaped by adult interpretations, connect and separate family members, help individuals articulate who they are, and su…
“Blanche Isn’t Folklore”: Reflections on Ethnography as Relationship
Searching to identify positive, constructive ways forward in the face of folkloristics’ colonialist past, here I return to fieldwork I completed on local characters in my home community of Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1986-87 near the beginning of my folklore career. In reflecting on the applicability of Indigenist research as outlined by Shawn Wilson (2008, 2019) to conventional folklore collecting practices, I consider ways the ethnography I conduct…
“Eating Your Path”: Fairy Lore and Scarcity in Newfoundland and Labrador
My interest here is in how Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have used folklore, specifically fairy lore, to think about life lived in the context of a pervasive history of scarcity. Extending to fairy traditions Dorothy Noyes’s argument that oral folktales collected in the nineteenth century represent “a space of analysis and debate among poor people evaluating their life options” (Noyes 2016: 300), I ask how fairy lore in Newfoundland and Labrad…
History (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Canadian Identity and History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Literature (5 works)