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folkish
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folk·ish  (fksh)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of folk music, art, or literature.
2. Simple or natural; folksy: charmed us with his folkish wit and humor.
folkish·ly adv.
folkish·ness n.
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The author makes it clear that the poetry of griots who included Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Sterling Brown crystallized the ideological project to recast "the identities of America's anonymous black masses away from the prevailing imagery of exoticism, romantic folkishness, and minstrel show buffoonery and toward a greater semblance of living, breathing, and proletarian human beings" (178).
Stacy I. Morgan. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and ... by Ogundayo, BioDun J. / African American Review
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