SOURCE: "Ralph Ellison's 'Flying Home': From Folk Tale to Short Story," in Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. XIII, No. 2, 1976, pp. 185-99.
Below, Ostendorf illustrates Ellison 's understanding of the aesthetic, social, and historical functions of black folklore through a detailed analysis of "Flying Home. "
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