SOURCE: "The Failure of Folklore in Richard Wright's 'Black Boy'," in Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 104, No. 413, Summer, 1991, pp. 275-94.
In the following essay, Mechling presents Richard Wright's autobiographical Black Boy in terms both of the folk traditions that inform the narrative, and of the ways that those traditions ultimately fail the narrator in cross-cultural situations.
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