Emily Zobel Marshall

About The Author

Emily Zobel Marshall is Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University. She is of French-Caribbean and British heritage and is expert on the trickster figure in the culture of the African Diaspora. She is author of Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit.

Books by Emily Zobel Marshall

Anansi

New & Ancient African Tales

Contributions by Yeayi Kobina / Foreword by Emily Zobel Marshall / Introduction by Ivana Akotowaa Ofori
Building on the popularity of mythological retellings, here's a new book, with new stories and a fascinating introduction to the enigmatic Anansi. A beautiful collectable edition.

Gorgeous collectable edition. Anansi is at once a creator god, a trickster folk hero, a wily spi...
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