Introduction, Cathy Lynn Preston; Part 1 The Literary; Chapter 1 Politics and Indigenous Theory in Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Yellow Woman” and Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek”, Alesia García; Chapter 2 Graffiti as Story and Act, Danielle M. Roemer; Chapter 3 Folklore and the Literature of Exile, Mark E. Workman; Chapter 4 Writing the Hybrid Body: Thomas Hardy and the Ethnographic “Money Shot”, Cathy Lynn Preston; Chapter 5 “Writing” and “Voice”: The Articulations of Gender in Folklore and Literature, Cristina Bacchilega; Chapter 6 Social Protest, Folklore, and Feminist Ideology in Chicana Prose and Poetry, María Herrera-Sobek; Part 2 The Traditional, Vernacular, and Local; Chapter 7 “Sidebar Excursions to Nowhere”: The Vernacular Storytelling of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray, John D. Dorst; Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women, Clover Williams, Jean R. Freedman; Chapter 9 Chuck Berry as Postmodern Composer-Performer, Peter Narváez; Chapter 10 Pieces for a Shabby Hut, Lee Haring; Chapter 11 Slave Spirituals: Allegories of the Recovery from Pain, Laura O’Connor; Chapter 12 Re-presentations of (Im)moral Behavior in the Middle English Non-Cycle Play “Mankind”, Michael J. Preston; Chapter 13 Oralities, and Literacies]: Comments on the Relationships of Contemporary Folkloristics and Literary Studies, Eric L. Montenyohl;