Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories
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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Total Pages : 340
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781465517050
ISBN-13 : 1465517057
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Jamaica Anansi Stories by : Collected by Martha Warren Beckwith

Anansi's Journey

Anansi's Journey
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Publisher : University of West Indies Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9766402612
ISBN-13 : 9789766402617
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Anansi's Journey by : Emily Zobel Marshall

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.

Anansi

Anansi
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Publisher : Vamzzz Publishing
Total Pages : 494
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9492355175
ISBN-13 : 9789492355171
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Anansi by : Martha Warren Beckwith

Anansi is both a god, spirit and African folktale character. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories. He is also one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.

Anansi Goes Fishing

Anansi Goes Fishing
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Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781430129776
ISBN-13 : 1430129778
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Anansi Goes Fishing by : Eric A. Kimmel

Anansi the Spider's plan to trick his friend Turtle into doing all the work while he teaches Anansi to catch fish somehow gets turned around. While Anansi doesn't learn his lesson, he does learn the invaluable skill of weaving.

Annancy Stories

Annancy Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924079620021
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Annancy Stories by : Pamela Colman Smith

Jack Mandora

Jack Mandora
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Publisher : CreateSpace
Total Pages : 26
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1481078747
ISBN-13 : 9781481078740
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Jack Mandora by : MR Roy C Comrie Msc

JACK MANDORA is a rare collection of never-before-published authentic Jamaican Anansi stories presented in a unique, humorous style. They are suitable for any occasion, and are a great addition to one's family library.

Anansi and the Tug o' War

Anansi and the Tug o' War
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Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781684440023
ISBN-13 : 1684440025
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Anansi and the Tug o' War by : Bobby Norfolk

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this trickster tale from Africa, Anansi proves to Elephant and Killer Whale that in a battle of wits, brains definitely outdo brawn.

Frying Plantain

Frying Plantain
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Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 175
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781487005351
ISBN-13 : 1487005350
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Frying Plantain by : Zalika Reid-Benta

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society. Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” In these twelve interconnected stories, we see Kara on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great-aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with ongoing battles of unyielding authority. A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker.

Tiger Soup

Tiger Soup
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Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0531068595
ISBN-13 : 9780531068595
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Tiger Soup by : Frances Temple

After tricking Tiger into leaving the soup he has been cooking, Anansi the spider eats the soup himself and manages to put the blame on the monkeys.