The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé - Wagner, Bryan
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"A fascinating study of Bras-Coupé, the legendary, powerful, and defiant runaway slave who inspired novels, an opera, ethnology, musicology, newspaper stories and a Hollywood movie."--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century "American maroons have too often been ignored, but in this well-researched book Bryan Wagner deftly shows the significance of the multifaceted tales--in a surprising variety of genres--that have turned Bras-Coupé's rather conventional maroon life into an unexpected international legend…mehr

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"A fascinating study of Bras-Coupé, the legendary, powerful, and defiant runaway slave who inspired novels, an opera, ethnology, musicology, newspaper stories and a Hollywood movie."--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century "American maroons have too often been ignored, but in this well-researched book Bryan Wagner deftly shows the significance of the multifaceted tales--in a surprising variety of genres--that have turned Bras-Coupé's rather conventional maroon life into an unexpected international legend as a hero or a villain. Wagner makes a stimulating contribution to our understanding of how and why these myths and tales developed and what purpose they served."--Sylviane A. Diouf, author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Autorenporträt
Bryan Wagner is associate professor in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery and The Tar Baby: A Global History.