Anand Prahlad
Biographic Data
| ID | 277541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anand Prahlad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anand |
| FAMILY NAME | Prahlad |
| SIGNATURE | PRAHLAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction
As an introduction to the special issue on folklore and disability, this essay offers a brief overview of how concerns about disability have historically been included in folklore studies in the United States. It discusses the field of disability studies and how folklore has been an important element of disability theory and writing. In making an argument for how a more serious engagement with disability studies theory and writing can enhance US …
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences-A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies
An Open Letter to the Wickhams (and Other Descendants of Slave Owners)
This essay explores issues of race, power, and history and focuses on ancestry in Canaan's Hill, a Black community descended from slaves on the adjoining plantation of Hickory Hill in Middle Virginia. It examines the idea of reparations and, in so doing, addresses nuances of the slave culture at Hickory Hill, as well as the enduring historical impact that the institution of slavery has had on American institutions in general and on common attitud…
African American Folklore, Folklife, and Race
The study of African American folklore has been grounded from its beginnings in the colonial period in discourses and power dynamics of race. This chapter posits that these beginnings have given rise to two folkloristic traditions, with differing agendas, methodologies, aesthetics, relationships to black communities, and investments in race. The mainstream tradition has been aligned with scholarly trends within academe and has seldom focused expl…
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America (review)
Reviewed by: Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America Anand Sw. Prahlad Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. By Patricia A. Turner and Gary Alan Fine. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 360, notes, index.) Turner and Fine's ambitious book (hereafter Whispers) seeks to wed folkloristics, social/political commentary, and popular psychology. It is highly unusual in its outright aspiration to assist in…
Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir
This piece includes excerpts taken from a book-length project that, more than anything else, is driven by personal crises arising from schizophrenia so common among first generation and minority academicians. My foremost goal was not to transform ethnographic practices, although the usefulness of ethnographic elements to such a project proves instructive. A merger between folkloristics and creative writing was a natural consequence of the more fu…
Africana Folklore: History and Challenges
Africana Folklore:History and Challenges Sw. Anand Prahlad, Professor of Folklore Studies and Literature (bio) When I agreed to edit this special issue of JAF dedicated to Africana folklore, I did so with a commitment to certain ideals: primarily, that no other body of material has had more impact on the development of cultures in the western hemisphere than Africana folk traditions and, consequently, that this should lead to a highly developed f…
You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth: Proverbial Expressions, Feminist Perspectives, and the Fetish in the Work of Janet Davidson-Hues
This article focuses on traditional sayings in the work of contemporary artist Janet Davidson-Hues, whose poetry and three-dimensional, monochromatic art revolves around proverbial expressions. Advancing the theory of the fetish as a critical lens through which to explore the ways these expressions function in Davidson-Hues's art, this work theorizes that the proverb in visual arts has historically functioned as an element of fetishistic display.…
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 270 pp
Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
In this provocative study of eight novels, Karen E. Beardslee asserts that American writers often engage with folk traditions as a necessary part of their characters journeys to wholeness. Focusing not only on African American, Native American, and Hispanic American cultures but also on women s culture, Beardslee traces the connections between folk legacies and the search for selfhood in both nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. Within each c…
African-American Proverbs in Context
Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid: An Afro-American Folk Tale
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences-A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction
As an introduction to the special issue on folklore and disability, this essay offers a brief overview of how concerns about disability have historically been included in folklore studies in the United States. It discusses the field of disability studies and how folklore has been an important element of disability theory and writing. In making an argument for how a more serious engagement with disability studies theory and writing can enhance US …
Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir
This piece includes excerpts taken from a book-length project that, more than anything else, is driven by personal crises arising from schizophrenia so common among first generation and minority academicians. My foremost goal was not to transform ethnographic practices, although the usefulness of ethnographic elements to such a project proves instructive. A merger between folkloristics and creative writing was a natural consequence of the more fu…
Africana Folklore: History and Challenges
Africana Folklore:History and Challenges Sw. Anand Prahlad, Professor of Folklore Studies and Literature (bio) When I agreed to edit this special issue of JAF dedicated to Africana folklore, I did so with a commitment to certain ideals: primarily, that no other body of material has had more impact on the development of cultures in the western hemisphere than Africana folk traditions and, consequently, that this should lead to a highly developed f…
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 270 pp
Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid: An Afro-American Folk Tale
African-American Proverbs in Context
Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
In this provocative study of eight novels, Karen E. Beardslee asserts that American writers often engage with folk traditions as a necessary part of their characters journeys to wholeness. Focusing not only on African American, Native American, and Hispanic American cultures but also on women s culture, Beardslee traces the connections between folk legacies and the search for selfhood in both nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. Within each c…
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 270 pp
You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth: Proverbial Expressions, Feminist Perspectives, and the Fetish in the Work of Janet Davidson-Hues
This article focuses on traditional sayings in the work of contemporary artist Janet Davidson-Hues, whose poetry and three-dimensional, monochromatic art revolves around proverbial expressions. Advancing the theory of the fetish as a critical lens through which to explore the ways these expressions function in Davidson-Hues's art, this work theorizes that the proverb in visual arts has historically functioned as an element of fetishistic display.…
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America (review)
Reviewed by: Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America Anand Sw. Prahlad Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. By Patricia A. Turner and Gary Alan Fine. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 360, notes, index.) Turner and Fine's ambitious book (hereafter Whispers) seeks to wed folkloristics, social/political commentary, and popular psychology. It is highly unusual in its outright aspiration to assist in…
Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir
This piece includes excerpts taken from a book-length project that, more than anything else, is driven by personal crises arising from schizophrenia so common among first generation and minority academicians. My foremost goal was not to transform ethnographic practices, although the usefulness of ethnographic elements to such a project proves instructive. A merger between folkloristics and creative writing was a natural consequence of the more fu…
Africana Folklore: History and Challenges
Africana Folklore:History and Challenges Sw. Anand Prahlad, Professor of Folklore Studies and Literature (bio) When I agreed to edit this special issue of JAF dedicated to Africana folklore, I did so with a commitment to certain ideals: primarily, that no other body of material has had more impact on the development of cultures in the western hemisphere than Africana folk traditions and, consequently, that this should lead to a highly developed f…
African American Folklore, Folklife, and Race
The study of African American folklore has been grounded from its beginnings in the colonial period in discourses and power dynamics of race. This chapter posits that these beginnings have given rise to two folkloristic traditions, with differing agendas, methodologies, aesthetics, relationships to black communities, and investments in race. The mainstream tradition has been aligned with scholarly trends within academe and has seldom focused expl…
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences-A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies
An Open Letter to the Wickhams (and Other Descendants of Slave Owners)
This essay explores issues of race, power, and history and focuses on ancestry in Canaan's Hill, a Black community descended from slaves on the adjoining plantation of Hickory Hill in Middle Virginia. It examines the idea of reparations and, in so doing, addresses nuances of the slave culture at Hickory Hill, as well as the enduring historical impact that the institution of slavery has had on American institutions in general and on common attitud…
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction
As an introduction to the special issue on folklore and disability, this essay offers a brief overview of how concerns about disability have historically been included in folklore studies in the United States. It discusses the field of disability studies and how folklore has been an important element of disability theory and writing. In making an argument for how a more serious engagement with disability studies theory and writing can enhance US …
Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (7 works) · Folklore (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)