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Pages: 240
Authors: John W. Roberts
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-24 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of beha
Trickster Makes This World
Language: en
Pages: 580
Authors: Lewis Hyde
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-17 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first
The Trickster Figure in American Literature
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Winifred Morgan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-23 - Publisher: Springer

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This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino
Willie Dixon
Language: en
Pages: 503
Authors: Mitsutoshi Inaba
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songwriter, arranger, and p
The Epic Trickster in American Literature
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Gregory E. Rutledge
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Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of