The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives Music | Genres & Styles | Rap & Hip Hop ; Social Science | Women's Studies ; Music | History & Criticism | General In his final years

In his final years

Weaving together the narratives of Hollis

Jay has come face to face with the demons from her past

a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist

Yet over time

The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives Music | Genres & Styles | Rap & Hip Hop ; Social Science | Women's Studies ; Music | History & Criticism | General In his final yearsIn the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro Caribbean, and Afro British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an