Download or read book Confessions of Anansi written by David Brailsford and published by Lmh Pub. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations of Nanny of the Maroons [p.45]; Sam Sharpe [p.51]; Paul Bogle[p.59];George William Gordon [p.67];Marcus Garvey [p.69]; Alexander Bustamante [p.81]; Norman Manley [p.88].
Download or read book Anansi and the Box of Stories written by Stephen Krensky and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anansi And The Box Of Stories
Download or read book The Pot of Wisdom written by Adwoa Badoe and published by Groundwood Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten tales about the spider trickster.
Download or read book Anansi written by Brian Gleeson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Jamaican folk tales in which Anansi the spider practices his trickery on others. Includes an audio cassette featuring narration and music.
Download or read book Anansi the Spider and the Sky King written by Jane Anderson and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perform this tale from Africa about a sky king's fee for his stories.
Download or read book The Caribbean Story Finder written by Sharon Barcan Elswit and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap bag, illustrate facets of traditional Puerto Rican life. Conflict over status, identity and power is a recurring theme—in a story from Trinidad, a young bull, raised by his mother in secret, challenges his tyrannical father who has killed all the other males in the herd. One in a series of folklore reference guides by the author, this volume shares summaries of 438 tales—some in danger of disappearing—retold in English and Creole from West African, European, and slave indigenous cultures in 24 countries and territories. Tales are grouped in themed sections with a detailed subject index and extensive links to online sources.
Download or read book Anansi the Trickster Spider written by Lynne Garner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anansi The Trickster Spider - Volumes One and Two(16 short stories)The stories featured in this book introduce Anansi the Spider, a traditional African trickster character.Anansi is as clever as he is lazy and he loves to prove just how smart he is by tricking the people of the village and the animals of the jungle. Luckily Anansi is not always as clever as he likes to think he is. Sometimes everything backfires on him and he becomes the victim of his own tricks. This book contains 16 short stories that were originally published as two eBook volumes, available to download from Amazon. These stories are: * Anansi and the gum doll* How Anansi got to ride Tiger* How Anansi turned an ear of corn into one hundred goats* How Anansi won the stories of the Sky God* Why spiders stays on the ceiling* Anansi and the witch named 'Five'* Anansi and the pot of wisdom* Anansi and the Tommy (Thompson Gazelle)* How Anansi missed four parties on one night* Anansi invites Turtle to tea* Anansi, Fly and Ant win the sun* Anansi and the talking melon* Anansi and the moss covered rock* Why Anansi has thin, long legs* Anansi and the field of corn* Anansi and the tug of warFor FREE Anansi themed activities and downloads visit www.anansi-spider.com.Reviews for Anansi The Trickster Spider - volume one eBookAmazon.co.uk - 6th January 2013 "It was a pleasure to read these tales again. I had read them all them before throughout my childhood and they were funny then, so reading through them again it brought it all back... the sweet memories. Its homour for both kids and adults, great read."4 out of 5 starsGood Reads - 13th June 2013 "A very nice collection. Good use of storytelling and language. The stories are varied and present different aspects of Anansi. Well done!"4 out of 5 starsAmazon.co.uk - 20th March 2014 "Anansi stories are well known in the Caribbean and orators like Louise Bennett really brings them to life in the Jamaican dialect. This selection of stores are written in the "English" words and would make an excellent reading book to parents and children of all ages! The stories are not too long, but there is always a moral."5 out of 5 stars
Download or read book Anansi the Spider written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.
Download or read book Jamaica Anansi Stories written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1924 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anansi Finds a Fool written by Verna Aardema and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lazy Anansi seeks to trick someone into doing the heavy work of laying his fish trap, but instead he is fooled into doing the job himself. Anansi, in human form, is tricked by Bonsu when they go fishing.
Download or read book Die With Me written by Elena Forbes and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You could find your new best friend on the web... or discover your worst nightmare. For fifteen-year-old Gemma, it's already too late. Her body was found in the nave of the parish church in Ealing. For D.I. Mark Tartaglia and the murder squad at Barnes, it's just a matter of time before the tragedy repeats itself.
Download or read book A Pillow Book written by Suzanne Buffam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sponsored by The Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan."
Download or read book Dunk Tank written by Kayla Czaga and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the title poem of award-winning poet Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, the speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience — hovering there confidently before the world plunges her into the frigid waters of adult life. Czaga reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape, full of cancers that “burst like blackberries;” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada; and the Cerberus-like sultry eyes of Winona Ryder’s pores. In Dunk Tank, clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These are poems of friendship, lingerie, sex, and longing. Not knowing how the world works, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. Dunk Tank is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.
Download or read book The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Books written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
Download or read book The Tales of Anansi Vol 1 written by Arielle Phoenix and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along with us as we retell stories of the mischievous but very intelligent West African, Ashanti trickster, Anansi the Spider. Anansi likes to get his own way and often uses his wit to outsmart animals much larger or stronger than he is; but Anansi doesn't know when enough is enough and his desire to win sometimes gets the best of him. Anansi tales date back to at least the 1500s and travelled by word of mouth from village to village. Throughout the diaspora, enslaved Africans would retell Anansi stories, passing them on through the generations and spreading them across Africa and The Americas. These stories didn't only serve as entertainment but they offered hope. Today, there are several versions of the many Anansi tales. Here are some of them...
Download or read book Anansi and the Box of Stories written by Stephen Krensky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossible tasks.
Download or read book How Anansi Got His Stories written by Trish Cooke and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anansi wants everyone to listen to his stories and admire him, but he will have to complete three challenges before he is worthy."--Page 4 of cover
