SPECIAL ISSUE: Guest Editor, John E. Price

Published: 2018-01-01

Articles

Introduction to the Special Issue, "The Folk Awakens: Star Wars and Folkloristics"

John E. Price

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The Jedi Community: History and Folklore of a Fiction-based Religion

Markus Altena Davidsen

7-49

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The Feminist Strikes Back: Performative Mourning in the Twitter Response to Carrie Fisher’s Death

Christine J. Widmayer

50-76

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"May the Fourth Be With You": Star Wars Day, the Mass Media, and a Vernacular Hybrid Fan-Holiday

Jared Lee Schmidt

77-108

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Notes

Folklore, Politics, and Fake News in the Reception of Rogue One

James I. Deutsch

109-20

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Fan-driven Identity Narratives: The Performative Culture of Star Wars Cosplayers

Anelise Farris

121-40

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Reviews

Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940, by Kodi A. Roberts

Cory Thomas Hutcheson

141-44

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City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston, by Anthony Bak Buccitelli

David J. Puglia

145-48

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