From trickster to badman : the Black folk hero in slavery and freedom /
To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-America...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1989.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhvtw |
| Riassunto: | To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero. -- Publisher description from http://www.upenn.edu (Oct. 11, 2011). |
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Natura: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585199930 9780585199931 9780812203110 0812203119 9780812213331 0812213335 0812281411 9780812281415 |