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"I knew what I did and I did it with deliberate calculation": Anxiety and tricksterism in African American autobiography.

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正題名/作者:	"I knew what I did and I did it with deliberate calculation": Anxiety and tricksterism in African American autobiography./
作者:	Pack, Uraina N.
面頁冊數:	290 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4553.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-12A.
標題:	Comparative literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3158262
ISBN:	9780496906574

"I knew what I did and I did it with deliberate calculation": Anxiety and tricksterism in African American autobiography.
Pack, Uraina N.

"I knew what I did and I did it with deliberate calculation": Anxiety and tricksterism in African American autobiography. - 290 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4553.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kentucky, 2004.

The origins and uses of the trickster figure in African and African American folklore have been much studied. A figure who engages in dissimulation, lying, jokes, deception, and the rhetorical manipulation of verbal and written language usage, the African trickster embodied themes of individual survival and self-betterment and was readily adapted and transformed to the regime of New World slavery and oppression to represent a collective worldview now emphasizing survival and self-betterment not only of the individual, but also of the race. As such, the trickster was critical to the development of African American orature and literature. This dissertation specifically examines verbal tricksterism in African American life-writings, in slave narratives and autobiographies, texts where the carefully coded deceptions, dissimulations, and ironies typical of the trickster powerfully contribute to representations of individual and collective survival and progress.

ISBN: 9780496906574Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a African and African American folktales were the primary source for models of trickster behavior. African tricksters such as Esu Elegbara, the focus of Henry Louis Gates' study of the Signifying Monkey, reinforced man's relation to divinity and society by constantly reinterpreting and critiquing language and text. African American tricksters, such as the popular animal trickster Br'er Rabbit and John from the John and Old Master stories, represented multiple strategies of resistance to New World enslavement.
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