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In Maroon Medicine, the first collection of short stories published by a Caribbean writer, Mr. Watson, an unsuspecting peasant, uses his wit to outsmart his more physically capable neighbors. Inspired by West African folklore about the spider-trickster spirit Anansi, Maroon Medicine is a brilliant and frequently funny collection of tales by Jamaican author E. A. Dodd.

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In Maroon Medicine, the first collection of short stories published by a Caribbean writer, Mr. Watson, an unsuspecting peasant, uses his wit to outsmart his more physically capable neighbors. Inspired by West African folklore about the spider-trickster spirit Anansi, Maroon Medicine is a brilliant and frequently funny collection of tales by Jamaican author E. A. Dodd.
Autorenporträt
E. A. Dodd is the author of Maroon Medicine (1905), a collection of short stories on working class life in Jamaica. Originally written under the pseudonym E. Snod, the collection appeared as part of a series of novellas and short stories published by the All Jamaica Library, an influential press established in 1903 by Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor Thomas MacDermot.