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All of these new tales kept the pattern of the African trickster tales where a resourceful animal hero having human traits used deceit and sly trickery, and sometimes magic, to get what it needed from bigger and strong animals.
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Anansi, the Spider, is one of the major trickster figures in African folk tales. This spider can be wise, foolish, amusing, or even lazy--but always there is a lesson to be learned from Anansi. The spider tales have traveled from Africa to the Caribbean Islands.
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West African Trickster Tales (Oxford Myths and Legends) (Paperback) ... Grade 4-6?A collection of 13 trickster tales, unsuccessfully adapted and retold to reflect modern culture and language and western lifestyles. In "A Debt Made Profit," Bennett's phrasing, "Bang! Bang! Bang! Again came Monkey's knocks, like a machine...
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The African culture, like many others, has trickster tales. A trickster tale is a folktale whose main character is an animal who tricks other animals. Many times the character is lazy or mischevious. One of the favorite characters of African trickster tales is Anansi the Spider, who has very special characteristics.
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The Barefoot Book of Trickster Tales, retold by Richard Walker, illus. ... A Ring Of Tricksters: Animal Tales From America, the West Indies, and Africa, Virginia Hamilton, illus. Barry Moser, J 398.2 HAMILTON; This collection includes American, West Indian and African animal tricksters from alligator to spider.
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More copies of this ISBN: ... 3 Burnside Mythology- African ... West African Trickster Tales Cover...
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Discusses four interpretive approaches to the African trickster tales, classifying them according to the kind of antagonist the trickster faces. Also comments on the social and historical significance of these tales and provides “a case study” by considering the Wanto tales of the Ghaya people of eastern Cameroon.
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EDSITEment, the best of the humanities on the web ... Ananse trickster tales derive from the Asante people of Ghana and were brought by African slaves to the Caribbean and parts of the U.S. These tales developed into Brer Rabbit stories and were written down in the 19th century in the American South.
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