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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主要作者: Roberts, John W. (John Willie), 1949-
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©1989.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhvtw
书本目录:
  • 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.