From Trickster to Badman

by John W. Roberts

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812213335
• ISBN13: 9780812213331
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

insightful

I do learn a lot about the difference between an afro-American and an American Indian trickster.