SOURCE: "Riffs and Rituals: Folklore in the Work of Ralph Ellison," in Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction, edited by Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto, The Modern Language Association of America, 1979, pp. 153-69.
In the following essay, O'Meally examines folklore allusions and interpretations both in the fiction of Ralph Ellison—most notably his one novel, Invisible Man—and in his nonfiction, including the essays in Shadow and Act.
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