Trickster tales in modern pop-culture! Find and watch an old Warner Brothers cartoon, analyzing it for elements of the trickster tale characteristics outlined in the reading and evaluating the degree

Trickster tales in modern pop-culture!

 Find and watch an old Warner Brothers cartoon, analyzing it for elements of the trickster tale characteristics outlined in the reading and evaluating the degree to which your chosen cartoon conforms. Share your analysis and evaluation with us in this forum. Elaborate on the following:

1. Who is/are the trickster(s)?

 2. Who are the power brokers?

 3. Is there a shortage situation?

 4. Who are the dupes?

5. What are the contracts?

6. Is there a contest of tricksters?

7. To what degree do you feel that the characters in the cartoon you watched reflect characters from the much older African and/or early African American stories we have studied?

8. What was the title and source of your cartoon?

Feel free to add anything else you may notice. You may even want to contrast and compare these cartoons against each other and/or the stories in the textbook. Have some fun with it.

Here are a few titles to get things started, but you are by no means limited to these!

Rabbit Hood

The High and the Flighty

Rabbit Season Duck Season

Baby Bottleneck

The Wearing of the Grin

Long-haired Hare

Rabbit’s Kin

Water Water Every Hare

High Diving Hare

Bunker Hill Bunny

Bugs Bunny Rides Again

Boobs in the Woods

Daffy Duck Hunt

Robin Hood Daffy

Yankee Doodle Daffy

Daffy Duck Slept Here

Bye Bye Bluebeard

Daffy Doodles

And the list goes on……….. Again, you are not limited to these choices, but don’t forget to give us the name and source of your chosen cartoon. 

Don’t be afraid to express opinions you have formed in reading this week’s assigned text, but back your opinions up with citations from the textbook or other sources, letting us know what your sources of information are.

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