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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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date:
24 November 2010
ISBN: 9780812203110
Format: eBook
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
