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Special Issue – New Literary History, Vol. 16, No.1, Autumn 1984

"The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)", Timothy Brennan. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 1989.

"The Rising of the Bones", Cynthia Ward. (Native American Stories) Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 1989.

"News and Storytelling in American Culture: reevaluating the sensational dimension", S.E.Bird and R.W. Dardenne; Journal of American Culture, Vol. XIII, No.2, Summer 1990.

"Word-Power, Performance, and Tradition", Foley, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 105, No.417, Summer 1992.

"Oral Tradition and Critical Song in Contemporary Germany", Arnold, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 15, No.3, Winter 1981.

"Latin American Women and the Oral Tradition: Giving Voice to the Voiceless", Shea, Critique, Vol. 34, No.3, Spring 1993.

"‘It All Depends on What Story You Hear’: Historiographic Metafiction and Cohn Johnson’s Dr. Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World and Witi Ihimaera’s The Matriarch", Tompkins, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 36, No.4, Winter 1990.

"The Reverend Lamar Roberts and the Mediation of Oral Tradition", Minton, Journal of American Folklore, Vol.108, No.427, Winter 1995.

"For a Poetics of Paraliterature, Part I: Paraliterature and the Oral Tradition", Boyer, Para.Doxa, Vol.1, No.1, 1995.

"The Practice of Oral Literary Criticism: Women’s Songs in Kangra, India", Narayan, Journal of American Folklore, Vol.108, No.429, Summer 1995.

"Transformation in African Verbal Art: Voice, Speech, Language", Hunter, Journal of American Folklore, Vol.109, No.432, Spring 1996.

"Audio Books in A Visual Culture", Kozloff, Journal of American Culture, Vol.18, No.4, Winter 1995.

"The Yellowman Tapes, 1966-1997" (on field-recorded tapes of Navajo stories and songs), Toelken, Journal of American Folklore, Vol.111, No.442, Fall 1998.