From trickster to badman
Subtitle: the Black folk hero in slavery and freedom
By: John W. Roberts.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: African Americans -- Folklore.; Folklore -- United States.; Heroes -- United States -- Folklore.; Tricksters -- United States.
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. -- Publisher description from http://www.upenn.edu (Oct. 11, 2011).
Notes: Bibliography: p. [223]-229.
Includes index.