Essays Tagged: "Brer Rabbit"

Tricksters in Literature and Life

tegories: the troublemaker tricksters, guilty tricksters, "I must get revenge" tricksters, and the "Brer Rabbit" tricksters.The trouble maker tricksters are just that: troublemakers. This group enjoys ... all the humiliating things other students have done in the past.The last type of trickster is the "Brer Rabbit" trickster. This is the ultimate type of trickster. Tricksters in this category are clev ...

(3 pages) 43 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Slave narrative essay, during the 1800's.

schemes against their imprisonment. A great example of this is the author of the famous stories of Brer Rabbit. The Brer Rabbit stories were theme based tales written by and for slaves. The purposes ...

(6 pages) 56 0 4.3 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

African-American Lit

tories passed on by blacks. Passed on without anything being wrote down for generations, stories of Brer Rabbit and John Henry are as old as the old Negro work songs. All of which have morals and hidd ... t religious characters also, and with them comes out those folkways that were passed down since the brer rabbit tales.Throughout our history on this continent African-Americans have been faced with im ...

(3 pages) 19 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers