Wait five minutes : weatherlore in the twenty-first century / edited by Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingram, Shelley, 1979- editor.

Mullins, Willow (Willow G.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weather--Folklore.

Weather.

Weather forecasting.

Meteorology.

Meteorologists.

Climatic changes.

Global environmental change.

Floods--Environmental aspects.

Floods.

Physical Description:

xxi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

Summary:

"The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena. Weatherlore is a concept that describes the folk beliefs and traditions about the weather that are passed down casually among groups of people. Weatherlore can be predictive, such as the belief that more black than brown fuzz on a woolly bear caterpillar signals a harsh winter. It can be the familiar commentary that eases daily social interactions, such as asking, "Is it hot (or cold) enough for you?" Other times, it is simply ubiquitous: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change." From detailing personal experiences at picnics and suburban lawns to critically analyzing storm stories, novels, and flood legends, contributors offer engaging multidisciplinary perspectives on weatherlore. As we move further into the twenty-first century, an increasing awareness of climate change and its impacts on daily life calls for a folkloristic reckoning with the weather and a rising need to examine vernacular understandings of weather and climate. Weatherlore helps us understand and shape global political conversations about climate change and biopolitics at the same time that it influences individual, group, and regional lives and identities. We use weather, and thus its folklore, to make meaning of ourselves, our groups, and, quite literally, our world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: and now, the weather

Introduction: the sky is telling it

Chapter 1. Divergent weatherlore in Christian hermeneutics: climate change and vernacular rhetoric in our current environmental crisis / Emma Frances Bloomfield and Sheila Bock

Chapter 2. "Of biblical proportions": flood motifs in personal narratives of Katrina survivors / Kate Parker Horigan

Chapter 3. In the bones: prognostication and weather in the twenty-first century / Willow G. Mullins

Chapter 4. Contrails to chemtrails: atmospheric scientists respond to challenging belief narratives / Anne Pryor

Chapter 5. From clockwork weatherman to atomic environmentalist / Máirt Hanley

Introduction: the romance of the weather

Chapter 6: The world of sensible seasons had come undone": climate change and regional folklore in Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight behavior" / Hannah Chapple

Chapter 7. Early modern special snowflakes / Christine Hoffmann

Chapter 8. Mothering the storm: Black girlhood and communal care in literature of Katrina

Jennifer Morrison and Shelley Ingram

Chapter 9: "You don't need a weatherman": Bob Dylan's windlore / James I. Deutsch

Chapter 10: "I'll never forget the thunderstorm of 1960, I think it was": storm stories

/ Lena Marander-Eklund

Introduction: feeding the storm

Chapter 11. Framing the flood: strategic environmental storytelling in Appalachia

/ Jordan Lovejoy

Chapter 12. Weathering the storm: folk ideas about character

/ John Laudun

Chapter 13: It always rains on a picnic: weatherlore and community narrative at St. Patrick's Irish picnic and homecoming / Kristen Bradley

Chapter 14. The folk wisdom of lawns / Todd Richardson

Chapter 15. Canning for the apocalypse: climate change, zombies, and the early twenty-first-century canning renaissance / Claire Schmidt

About the contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wait five minutes

ISBN:

9781496844354

1496844351

9781496844361

149684436X

OCLC:

1356222503

Publisher Number:

99994168932