Abstract:Important and coherent centers for what is ethnic, what is regional, in the literatures and cultures of Americans can be found in private, unassuming "family" space and time and folk tradition. Like other folk groups, families have well-developed, traditionally persistent and artistically recreative bodies of oral narrations as well as their own proverb forms and folk speech, rhymes and rituals, folk poetry, music and song. Families generate and transmit jokes and anecdotes, homilies and hero legends -and whol… Show more
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