Analyzing the prominence of remembering history and folklore in selected novels by ralph Ellison invisible man and Zora Neale mules and men

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Despite the repressive and racist system in American society, the diversity of individual African-American experiences has accompanied the ancestry of their oral traditions and folklore, influencing literature positively or negatively.

The paper aims to examine history and folklore in the well-known two novels Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Mules and Men by Zora Neale as essential structuring elements in the formation of subjectivity.

The novel Invisible Man synthesizes his experiences in the North and South with African-American folklore and motifs from Western white works to create a rich depiction of life in the United States.

The fluctuating popularity of Hurston reveals a significant shift in the criteria for evaluating African-American literature during the twentieth century.

In light of their authorial attitudes and sociological and historical evidence about African-American manhood, a comparison of the two authors' works reveals that Ralph Ellison presented a vision of ideal African-American manhood based on models of white masculinity.

And "resurrection" of Zora Neale Hurston's work has become an important story for anyone interested in this unclassifiable work.

These works examine American history and society's facts and circumstances to question white and African-American people's traditional gender roles.

In asserting the place of black women and condemning the attempt by white writers to write black history, Hurston was an influence not only for these women writers but also, more broadly, on the black movement in the United States.

The two writers were interested in incorporating folklore into