Author(s): Shritama Mukherjee

Abstract: The aim of this paper will be to attempt an examination of how folktales have been a part of the cultural memory of African-Americans and how it has been explored through literature, especially a reworking of these tales into short stories and other forms of fiction. It will further be attempted to explore the sense of identity in the African-American community as can be found in these stories and how much of that still persists in their consciousness and imagination to this day.

Keywords: culture, memory, folktales, identity.

Article Info: Received: 02 Jun 2021; Received in revised form: 03 Jul 2021; Accepted: 09 Jul 2021; Available online: 16 Jul 2021

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.64.5