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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1989.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index. |
ISBN: | 0585199930 9780585199931 9780812203110 0812203119 9780812213331 0812213335 |