Caribbean Folk Tales (eBook)

Stories from the Islands and from the Windrush Generation

Wendy Shearer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
160 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-077-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Professional Storyteller Wendy Shearer has gathered together stories from many Caribbean islands and countries, drawing on oral history and written texts to bring these folk tales to life. Many stories are of West African origin, kept alive through rhythm and song. These tales and their languages were blended with European and East Indian folklore, with royalty, heroes and spirits exacting revenge. Alongside the stories are newly collected reminiscences of migration to Britain from Caribbean countries during the Windrush years. These first-hand accounts mirror the themes found in the folk tales with love and loss, magic and mystery, caution and justice.


Cric! Crac! Prepare to be enchanted by La Diablesse from Haiti, outsmarted by the trickster Anansi, or terrified by the shapeshifting Old Higue in Guyana.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anansi • baccoo • Barbados • Beliefs • Caribbean • Caribbean folklore • Caribbean Islands • Caribs • carribbean • Carribean • Cuba • Customs • dialects • Dominica • Fairytales • Folklore • Folk Tale • Folk Tales • grace hallworth • Guyana • Haiti • Jamaica • jon do-good • La Diablesse • La Diablesse, trinidad, tobago, anansi, baccoo, guyana, Soucouyant, Dominica, jamaica, jon do-good, stories from the islands and the windrush generation • mama d'leau • old higue • oral stories • rosamund grant • soucouyant • stories from the islands and the windrush generation • storytellers • Storytelling • Storytelling, folk tales, folklore, fairytales, storytellers, folk tale, customs, dialects, beliefs, tradition, traditional tales, caribbean, caribbean islands, carribean, carribbean, oral stories, west africa, west african origin, west indies, west indians, windrush, windrush generation • Suriname • tainos • Tobago • Tradition • traditional tales • Trinidad • West Africa • west african origin • west indians • West Indies • Windrush • windrush generation|La Diablesse
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-077-5 / 1803990775
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-077-4 / 9781803990774