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求GRE一篇短阅读的解释
Extended debate concerning the exact point of origin of individual folktales
told by Afro-American slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analysis of
the tales’ meaning and function. Cultural continuities with Africa were not
dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their
pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves
and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to
African tradition can be found. Afro-American slaves did not borrow tales
indiscriminately from the Whites among whom they lived. Black people were most
influenced by those Euro-American tales whose functional meaning and aesthetic
appeal had the greatest similarity to the tales with deep roots in their
ancestral homeland. Regardless of where slave tales came from, the essential
point is that, with respect to language, delivery, details of characterization,

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