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Maroon Medicine

English · Hardback

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In Maroon Medicine, the first collection of short stories published by a Caribbean writer, Mr. Watson, an unsuspecting peasant, uses his wit to outsmart his more physically capable neighbors. Inspired by West African folklore about the spider-trickster spirit Anansi, Maroon Medicine is a brilliant and frequently funny collection of tales by Jamaican author E. A. Dodd.

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E. A. Dodd is the author of Maroon Medicine (1905), a collection of short stories on working class life in Jamaica. Originally written under the pseudonym E. Snod, the collection appeared as part of a series of novellas and short stories published by the All Jamaica Library, an influential press established in 1903 by Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor Thomas MacDermot.


Product details

Authors E a Dodd, E. A. Dodd
Publisher Mint Editions
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.09.2021
 
EAN 9798888972113
ISBN 979-8-88897-211-3
No. of pages 48
Series Mint Editions (Tales from the
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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