Description
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780812213331
Author John W. Roberts
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
