From Trickster to Badman

von John W Roberts

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Volksglaube Folklore-, Mythen- und Legendenforschung
• ISBN: 9780812213331
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.1990
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press