SOURCE: Blake, Susan L. “Ritual and Rationalization: Black Folklore in the Works of Ralph Ellison.” PMLA 94, no. 1 (January 1979): 121-36.
In the following essay, Blake considers the role of African American folklore in Ellison's short stories.
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