Description: A study of Lutz Röhrich, the key folklorist who redeemed and contextualized German folklore after horrific misuses by the Nazis
Brief description:
Sadhana Naithani is a professor at the Centre of German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is the author of In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke and The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics (University Press of Mississippi).
Review Quotes:
"Scholars and students of folklore will be deeply indebted to Sadhana Naithani for this compelling study of German folklorist Lutz Röhrich. Naithani not only demonstrates Röhrich's role in the transformation of folklore studies in postwar Germany, she also argues convincingly that Röhrich's illuminating ideas and rigorous methodology--especially in the study of folktales and folksongs--can benefit contemporary folklorists around the world. After reading this book, anyone interested in folklore will want to put Lutz Röhrich at the top of their reading (or re-reading) list."
--Donald Haase, professor of German and senior associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University and editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales