From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom

Title: From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom
Author: John W Roberts
ISBN: 0812281411
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher 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.