Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance

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Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean. He symbolizes key aspects of Afro-Caribbean culture and is celebrated as a very important link with an African past. Anansi stories, wherein the small spider turns the tables on his powerful enemies through cunning and trickery, at the moment are told and published world wide.

This highly original and innovative book traces Anansi’s journey from West Africa to Jamaica, where he’s celebrated as a national folk hero. The distinctiveness of this book lies in its accumulation of new data on Anansi in both Ghana and Jamaica and in its theoretical analysis of Anansi’s potential as a resource for resistance against oppression. As no sustained analysis of the Anansi tales has been undertaken with such ambition or on one of these scale, that is an investigation dedicated to filling the present deficit in our working out of this fascinating folk phenomenon.

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