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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Roberts, John W. (John Willie), 1949-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©1989.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhvtw
目次:
  • Br'er Rabbit and : Trickster heroes in slavery
  • The power within: the conjurer as folk hero
  • Christian soldiers all: spirituals as heroic expression
  • "You done me wrong": the badman as outlaw hero.