Emily Zobel Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Course Director for English Literature at the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. She teaches courses on African-American, Caribbean, African and Black British literature. Her research specialisms are African American and Caribbean literature and Caribbean carnival cultures. She is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and she has published widely in these fields. She is currently establishing a Caribbean Carnival Cultures research platform and network that aims to bring the critical, creative, academic and artistic aspects of carnival into dialogue with one another. Emily regularly organises, hosts and chairs literary events and has organised conferences on Caribbean literature and culture. She is a regular contributor to BBC radio discussions on racial politics and Caribbean culture and is an invited speaker at national and international academic conferences. Her books focus on the role of the trickster in Caribbean and African American cultures and her first book, Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012) was published by the University of the West Indies Press. Emily also writes poetry and lives in Leeds, Yorkshire, with her husband Tom and her two young children Theo and Rose.
Introduction
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: African Trickster in the Americas
Chapter 2: Anansi and Brer Rabbit: The Trickster and the Dynamics of Racial
Representation
Chapter 3: Harris, Jones Jr. and Fortier: The Paradox of the Collector's
Delight
Chapter 4: From Bugs Bunny to Peter Rabbit: Problematising Popular
Adaptations
Chapter 5: Writing Back to Remus: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the
Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen
Chapter 6: Toni Morrison: Brer Rabbit Reclaimed
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