[PDF] The Trickster In West Africa eBook

Author : Robert D. Pelton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520341481

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The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way the trickster links animality and ritual transformation; culture, sex, and laughter; cosmic process and personal history; divination and social change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way th

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780192741721

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This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place "where stories grow on trees." Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all--Ananse the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations, and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.

Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429930837

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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

Author : Gerald McDermott
Publisher : Harcourt Childrens Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780152010119

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Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

Author : Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803286115

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A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters

Author : Gerald McDermott
Publisher : SCHOLASTIC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Big books
ISBN : 9780590489478

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Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

Author : Babacar M'baye
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1604733527

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In 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 interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression. Works discussed in this book include Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1795), Elizabeth Hart Thwaites's “History of Methodism” (1804), Anne Hart Gilbert's "History of Methodism" (1804), and Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself (1831). Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom, The Trickster Comes West relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.

Author : Emily Zobel Marshall
Publisher : University of West Indies Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789766402617

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The historic Hope lands located on the Liguanea Plain in the southeastern parish of St Andrew, Jamaica, and once the site of one of the island?s earliest sugar estates, has had a long history of human settlements dating back to approximately 600 CE, the era of the indigenous Tainos. It was not until 1655, however, with the English invasion and seizure of Jamaica from the Spanish, that the Hope landscape developed into a thriving rural agrarian settlement. Generous land grants were made to the invading officers and later to immigrants from Britain and North America and from other Caribbean islands. Major Richard Hope came in possession of over 2,600 acres in the Liguanea Plain. Major Hope, unlike many of his counterparts by the 1660s, managed to establish a small sugar plantation, which developed by the mid-1700s into one of the island?s largest, most productive and technologically advanced slave sugar estates. In the 1770s the estate became the property of the Duke of Chandos and his family until 1848, when the estate was dismantled. Over 600 acres were sold to the Kingston and Liguanea Water Works Company and the remaining 1,700 acres were leased to the owner of the adjoining Papine and Mona estates. Poor accounting and border surveillance enabled several persons to possess the land, which was later sanctioned by the Limitations of Actions Law. With the government?s acquisition of the entire property in 1909, the Hope estate underwent remarkable changes in the twentieth century. By 1960 the Hope landscape was radically transformed from a sugar estate worked by hundreds of enslaved black people to a premiere urban centre of commercial, residential and educational land use.

Author : Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1430129743

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"Terheyden's narration makes the characters come alive. A truly delightful addition to any collection." - School Library Journal