SOURCE: "Common Folklore Features in African and African American Literature," in Southern Folklore Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2, June, 1975, pp. 111-33.
In the following essay, Hill explores themes common to African and African-American folklore through an examination of elements, including storytelling and folk sayings, in novels and other writings.)
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