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Anancy, Anansi [əˈnænsɪ] n (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) a character in Caribbean folklore, a cunning trickster generally depicted as a spider with a human head; the subject of many Anancy stories, the character has its origins among the Ashanti of W Africa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hopkinson identifies three core folk stories in the construction of
Midnight Robber: the African trickster tale of Anancy the Spider and Dry
Bone, the Taino ecological myth of the squalid planet, and the Jamaican
legend of Three-[F]ingered Jack, a historical figure who killed his
plantation owner for a crime committed against his mother and then
became the subject of fear rather than celebration amongst the people of
the island. Bible stories and our Anancy traditional
folktales opened up my inner seeing, but also helped to maintain a sense
of loneliness that worried me. Harris invests the term carnival with various meanings that
intersect with the Homeric, Anancy (African), Christian, and
pre-Christian traditions and provide a critical linchpin in reading
Ellison's Invisible Man within the space of a cross-cultural and
inter-American imagination. |
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