Retrieving the Voice of the Ancestors: Folktale Narration in Hurston's Mules and Men
As W. E. B. Du Bois maintains, America’s authentic national culture is grounded in its history, popular culture, and the traditions of blacks. This claim is deeply rooted in Du Bois’s belief in the theory of Volkgeist, a conceptual model developed by the German Romantic philosopher Johann Gottfried...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2014-12-01
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Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/321 |