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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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1989.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhvtw |
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