Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation Shearer Wendy
Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation Shearer Wendy Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to…
Specifikacia Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation Shearer Wendy
Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation Shearer Wendy
Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to BritainCaribbean islands are rich in oral stories. Carried to the islands with rhythm and song, stories were blended with European and East Indian folklore.Professional Storyteller Wendy Shearer has gathered together stories from many islands, with themes of magic and mystery, love and loss, tricksters and fools. Steeped in history where ancestors arrived as slaves, many stories are of West African origin.
Be enchanted by La Diablesse from Trinidad, outsmarted by the trickster Anansi, terrified by the shape-shifting Baccoo in Guyana and hunted by the Soucouyant from Dominica. Be Alongside the stories are reminiscences of migration from the Windrush generation - people who came from the Caribbean to Britain, shaping new stories to influence the old.Cric! Crac!