Title: The trickster comes west
First published: 2009
Description: This book explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. It examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (rabbit), Golo (monkey), Bouki (hyena), Mbe (tortoise), and Anancy (spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression.
Subjects: History and criticism, Slave narratives, Blacks, Race identity, Slavery in literature, Tricksters in literature, American literature, Civilization, Caribbean literature (English), African American authors, Black authors, African diaspora in literature, African influences, Pan-Africanism in literature, Caribbean literature, history and criticism, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Blacks, race identity, America, civilization, Literatur, Betrüger, Black people
Places: America
LC classification: PR9205.05 .M33 2009