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This book examines the cultural significance of the North American trickster figure Brer Rabbit.

List of contents

Introduction

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1: African Trickster in the Americas

Chapter 2: Anansi and Brer Rabbit: The Trickster and the Dynamics of Racial Representation

Chapter 3: Harris, Jones Jr. and Fortier: The Paradox of the Collector's Delight

Chapter 4: From Bugs Bunny to Peter Rabbit: Problematising Popular Adaptations

Chapter 5: Writing Back to Remus: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen

Chapter 6: Toni Morrison: Brer Rabbit Reclaimed

Bibliography

About the author

Emily Zobel Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Course Director for English Literature at the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. She teaches courses on African-American, Caribbean, African and Black British literature.

Her research specialisms are African American and Caribbean literature and Caribbean carnival cultures. She is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and she has published widely in these fields. She is currently establishing a Caribbean Carnival Cultures research platform and network that aims to bring the critical, creative, academic and artistic aspects of carnival into dialogue with one another.

Emily regularly organises, hosts and chairs literary events and has organised conferences on Caribbean literature and culture. She is a regular contributor to BBC radio discussions on racial politics and Caribbean culture and is an invited speaker at national and international academic conferences. Her books focus on the role of the trickster in Caribbean and African American cultures and her first book, Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012) was published by the University of the West Indies Press. Emily also writes poetry and lives in Leeds, Yorkshire, with her husband Tom and her two young children Theo and Rose.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Zobel Marshall, Emily Zobel Marshall
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781783481101
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-110-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Black & Asian Studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American people