Suhani Gupta
Dr. Brendan Thornton
RELI 144H
8 October 2015 African Trickster Tales The tradition of expressing the invincibility of the powerless through the form of the trickster served a major role in African culture. In John W. Roberts’ From Trickster To Badman, African trickster tales are viewed and discussed from different perspectives. For many years, the Europeans considered Africans to be an uncivilized group of people. In Roberts’ article, Thanet claims that the seemingly small and weak trickster animals can only succeed through “cunning and immoral deception which reflected not only the African roots of the tales but also the African character of blacks in America” (Roberts 19). Therefore, the “silly trickster tales” further solidified
Dr. Brendan Thornton
RELI 144H
8 October 2015 African Trickster Tales The tradition of expressing the invincibility of the powerless through the form of the trickster served a major role in African culture. In John W. Roberts’ From Trickster To Badman, African trickster tales are viewed and discussed from different perspectives. For many years, the Europeans considered Africans to be an uncivilized group of people. In Roberts’ article, Thanet claims that the seemingly small and weak trickster animals can only succeed through “cunning and immoral deception which reflected not only the African roots of the tales but also the African character of blacks in America” (Roberts 19). Therefore, the “silly trickster tales” further solidified