Anansi Tactics in Plantation Jamaica: Matthew Lewis's Record of Trickery

The centrality of Anansi tactics to slave life is superbly illustrated in a saying used by slaves from South Carolina: "De bukrah (whites) hab scheme, en de nigger hab trick, en ebry time bukrah scheme once, de nigger trick twice" (cited in Scott 1990, 163). [...] collector of Anansi tales...

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Published in:Wadabagei 2009-01, Vol.12 (3), p.126-152
Main Author: Marshall, Emily Zobel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Black culture
Blacks
Historical analysis
History
Jamaica
Plantations
Power
Slavery
Slaves
Subversion
Tales
Twentieth Century
Whites
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Summary:The centrality of Anansi tactics to slave life is superbly illustrated in a saying used by slaves from South Carolina: "De bukrah (whites) hab scheme, en de nigger hab trick, en ebry time bukrah scheme once, de nigger trick twice" (cited in Scott 1990, 163). [...] collector of Anansi tales Martha Warren Beckwith explains that another name for "trickster tales told by Negroes" was "neger [nigger]-tricks" (1924, xxii).
ISSN:1091-5753
2377-6595