Abstract
This is the book I had been planning to write for the past fifteen years, it was inevitable that if I kept procrastinating, someone would more expeditiously respond to the obvious void. Finally H. Nigel Thomas has provided the kind of exploration and explication of the use, influence, and impact of Black folklore on literature that I perceived was so much needed. Despite the numerous published commentaries on the influence of Afro-American folklore on individual works and specific authors, and the occasional consideration of its influence on a particular genre or a limited period (such as Keith Byerman's focus on ten contemporary writers in Fingering the Jagged Grain), nothing approaching the scope of this study has appeared. Thus I welcome From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel, at the same time I upbraid myself for dallying while Thomas forged ahead.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1988
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Copyright © 1988 Greenwood Press. This chapter first appeared in From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel.
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Recommended Citation
Dance, Daryl Cumber. "'Learn It to the Younguns': Passing on Folk Wisdom." In From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel, edited by H. Nigel Thomas, ix-xii. Vol. 118. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988.
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