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The Preservation of Cultural Memory in African-American Fiction

Journal: International Journal of English, Literature and Social Science (Vol.6, No. 4)

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Page : 20-23

Keywords : culture; memory; folktales; identity.;

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Abstract

The aim of this paper will be to attempt an examination of how folktales have been a part of the cultural memory of African-Americans and how it has been explored through literature, especially a reworking of these tales into short stories and other forms of fiction. It will further be attempted to explore the sense of identity in the African-American community as can be found in these stories and how much of that still persists in their consciousness and imagination to this day.

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