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Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1899) uses the tall tale and frame narrative forms to examine life in the American South of the nineteenth century.

Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) and "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868) offer portraits of life in mining camps and on the American frontier.

In the title story of the 1993 collection One Good Story, That One, Native-American writer Thomas King satirizes the importance of storytelling in anthropological studies and the conflicts that...

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