Adolescent Legend Trips as Teenage Cultural Response: A Study of Lore in Context

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Patricia M. Meley

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Legend trip research is a relatively new field of inquiry in folklore. The attention of earlier collectors centered on the textual analysis of adolescent legends. Recent trends in contextual analysis have refocused the research on the performance of the legend. Legend trip research has focused rather exclusively on the trip's function in the coming-of-age process of white, suburban, middle-class adolescents. Yet there are indications that the legend trip is an urban phenomenon as well, and as my own study shows, the trip is a multi-racial experience.

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