Anancy’s Score (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrew Salkey
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: Creation to the Vietnam era
- Setting: West Africa and the Caribbean
- Principal Characters: Anancy, Anancy’s wife, Brother Tiger, Brother Dog, Brother Snake, Brother Tacuma, Brother Oversea, Sister Mysore Cow
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Philosophy or philosophers, Caribbean, Cattle, Changelings or cuckoos, Creation myth, Dogs, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Mythical animals, Mythology or myths, Power, personal or social, Snakes, Spiders, Tigers, Tricks, Tricksters
- Locales: Africa, Caribbean
The Stories
Anancy’s Score is a collection of twenty short stories that feature the adventures of Anancy, a spider person. In the “Author’s Note,” Salkey acknowledges that his Anancy is an amalgamation of the Anansi of West African and Caribbean folklore and his own imagination. True to his folkloric forebears, Anancy, in Salkey’s words,
holds no reservations; makes only certain crucial allowances; he knows no boundaries; respects no one, not even himself, at times; and he makes a mockery of everybody’s assumptions and value judgements.
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