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Ellison, Mary, review of Gayl Jones, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature, in Ethnicity and Representation in American Literature, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 24.1 (1994)), pp. 351–52, doi:10.2307/3507954