From Trickster to Badman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812213331)

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.

Author: John W. Roberts
ISBN-10: 0812213335
ISBN-13: 9780812213331
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1990
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.97w x 0.73d