Index
INDEX Abrahams, Roger, 2, 3,4,8,21, 173, 175; definition of hero, 2; on function of hero stories, 3 Mfleck, Thomas, 48 Africa, 24; agricultural production, 24; hunting, 24; material conditions, 25 African American trickster tales (animal), 18-22,36-42,45-46; ambiguity in, 18, 20; and physical survival, 33; and religion, 34; as compensatory devices, 21; as influence on bad man tradition, 186; as models of behavior, 36-43; as reflection of black identity and behavior, 19; basis of heroism in, 18, 20; changes in after slavery, 187-188; decorum in, 40; effects of freedom on, 188-189;food as goal in, 36-37; moral and ethical code in, 45; origins of, 17-20 African American trickster tales (human), 44, 53-61; and slave driver, 53; as reflection of communal values, 60; punishment in, 56, 59; realistic content of, 44 African heroic epic, 122; as "supergenre ," 122; concepts of action in, 126; magic in, 125-127; performances of, 123; the hero of, described, 125 Africanisms, 10 Africa religious specialists, 69, 90-91; and "important magic," 73; and transAtlantic slave trade, 69; duties of, described, 70-71; fate in America, 93-94; in African oral tradition, 71-72; role in communal life, 80; role in practice of magic and witchcraft, 80; training of, 71 African trickster tales, 17,25-27,29-30, 34-35; and religion, 27-29; effects of social structure on, 29; food as reward in, 24-26; formulaic opening sequences in, 26; full text of "How Ture Got Food From the Sky God," 25-26; magic and supernatural aids in, 27; parallels to African American trickster tales, 17; trickster and dupes in, described, 22-23 Afrocentric, defined, 9; as an alternative to the search for Africanisms, 9 Alexander, Lucretia, 145 Anglo-American outlaw traditions, 175-176; role of legal oppression in, 182 Anyanwu, K.C., 76, 78, 81 Bacon, Alice, 67, 68 Bascom, Willialn, 72 badrnan: identified, 173; and AngloAmerican values, 184-185, 186; contrasted with trickster, 185-186; economic oppression as influence on, 189-192; supernatural elements in legends of, 200-203 "bad nigger:" as prototype for badman, 174; and the criminal justice system in the late nineteenth century, 179; as hero in post-emancipation America, 176-178; as professional criminals, 204-205; attitude of the black community toward (after emancipation ), 177; characteristic behavior contrasted with that of trickster, 199-200; in slavery, 176 Bandits, 6 Batson, 208-209, 210 Beattie, John, 73 biblical heroes: described by scholars, 109-110; as role models, 150-152; importance of spiritual attributes, 157; influence in slave rebellions, 161-165 Index/231 Biebuyck, Daniel P., 121, 123, 126, 127, 130,131 Bird, Charles, 122, 123, 125, 126, 132 Black Culture and Black Consciousness, 20 Blassingame, John W., 31, 82, 142, 143, 144 Bras Coupe, 134-136 Brawley, Benjamin, 178, 190 Brearley, H.C., 176 Br' er Rabbit. SeeAfrican American trickster tales (animal) Brochert, James, 204 Brooks, William, 31 Brown, Mason, 117 Brown, Sterling, 110 Brown, William Wells, 95, 145 Bruce, Phillip A., 67 Burton, William E., 116 Campbell, Israel, 40 Christian Evangelical Movement, 139-140; importance of conversion experience in, 139; role of biblical gospel in, 139-140; singing and holy dancing in, 140 Christian evangelists, 140; as exhorters, 140 Christensen, Abigail, 19, 41 Clark, Lewis, 199 conjure tales, 65, 96-101; invalidating conjurers' power, 99 conjuration, 66; African origins of, 67; as protection from evil, 99; as superstition , 66; in creating beneficial relationship to masters, 103 conjurers, 65-67; and Christian values, 66; and illness, 97-99; antagonists of, 95; as tricksters, 103-104,200; beliefs about sources of power, 94; compared to Satan in spirituals, 155-156; influence of master-slave relationship on, 91-92; black perception of, after slavery, 200; white view of, 66 "Coon in the Box" tale, 53-54; analysis of, 54-55 "conventional wisdom," about slavery, 8 Courlander, Harold, 109-111, 128, 131 Crockett, Davy, 3 culture-building, defined, 1; and folklore creation, 4; as an historical process, 11-12; compared to heroic creation, 1-2; among African Americans in the late nineteenth century, 193; effects of legal repression on African Americans in late nineteenth century, 194-196 culture specific analysis, 2; need for in the study of folk heroic literature, 2 Davis, Susan, 93 de Buys, General William, 134-135 Dett, Nathaniel, 115, 119 Dickson, Bruce, 44 differential identity, 1; as an influence of folk heroic creation, 2 "Dividing souls," tale, 59 Diviners. SeeAfrican religion specialists Dorson, Richard M., 3, 19...
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