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AliceCEB
Registered User
(2/14/05 7:37 pm)
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Re: Still mulling...
Your description of parkin made me think of the Tar Baby story and gave me a good laugh. It also led to an epiphany. In the majority of the Brer Rabbit tales, food is a large part of the plot--either Brer Rabbit is trying to steal some, or he's using some to trick another beast, or he's doing his best to avoid being someone's dinner. The happy ending often involves Brer Rabbit returning to his family and having them feast on his gains. I wonder, has anyone studied how food plays a part in those tales?
Best,
Alice
Edited by: AliceCEB at: 2/14/05 7:41 pm
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kristiw
Unregistered User
(2/15/05 5:29 pm)
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appetite again
Food does play a pretty pivotal role in many of the Brer Rabbit stories, and there has been some work done with that: In Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes This World, he explores the trickster as a fundamentally appetite driven figure; all of trickster's actions serve, in some way, his hunger of both edible and sexual varieties. (Btw, I use the default 'his' only because--as I realized myself when I wrote on Athena as a trickster figure--that there is a mysterious vacuum of female tricksters.)
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AliceCEB
Registered User
(2/16/05 8:32 am)
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Re: appetite again
Thank you, kristiw. I should check it out.
Best,
Alice
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