Creolization, Folklore, and Post-Racial Exception: Arthur Huff Fauset in Canada.
Published as the twenty-fourth volume of the Memoirs of the American Folklore Society in 1931, Arthur Huff Fauset's Folklore from Nova Scotia is the only book-length collection of Black Canadian folklore published in the twentieth century. As one of several significant American studies of Canadian f...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 33 - 54 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Apr2026
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