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From trickster to badman : the Black folk hero in slavery and freedom
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From trickster to badman : the Black folk hero in slavery and freedom

Author: John W Roberts
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1989.
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Folklore
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Roberts, John W. (John Willie), 1949-
From trickster to badman.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1989
(OCoLC)579049244
Online version:
Roberts, John W. (John Willie), 1949-
From trickster to badman.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1989
(OCoLC)632012254
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John W Roberts
ISBN: 0812281411 9780812281415 0812213335 9780812213331
OCLC Number: 18351603
Description: 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. Introduction ---
II. Br'er Rabbit and : Trickster Heroes in Slavery ---
III. The Power Within: The Conjurer as Folk Hero ---
IV. Christian Soldiers All: Spirituals as Heroic Expression ---
V. "You Done Me Wrong": The Badman as Outlaw Hero ---
VI. Conclusion.
Responsibility: John W. Roberts.
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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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