SOURCE: Othow, Helen Chavis. “Roots and the Heroic Search for Identity.” CLA Journal 26, no. 3 (March 1983): 311-24.
In the following essay, Othow discusses Roots as a modern epic that has wide cultural appeal because it embodies the ongoing human search for meaning.
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