Folklore and fakelore: an address to a long-going debate about the authenticity of folklore content in America.
Abstract
This paper will focus on the long-going debate in the discipline of ‘American Folklore’ about its some part of the content should be considered ‘Authentic Folklore’ or not. Well-known folklorists from America addressed this question from time to time. The researcher will include the foremost works which are addressing this problem and try to give an understanding of the problem. The term American Folklorists is used for the discrimination between folklore which can be proven as authentic as per the general characteristics of folklore and other content which seems to be folklore content but fails to be authentic. They use the term ‘Fakelore’ to such content. For the sake of understating researcher will use American folk legends as an example of discrimination. This paper will through some light on this particular topic so it can be helpful to other research scholars in developing a primary understanding of American Folklore itself.
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