Afrointratextuality as a means of examining folklore in the emancipation narratives of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs
This study examines the use and documentation of folklore within Emancipation narratives. This examination is predicated on the behavior of the trickster, Br’er Rabbit. Through analysis of Br’er Rabbit’s behavior, three survival techniques used by the authors in this study function as a means of det...
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DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center
1997
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2650 http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4407&context=dissertations |