Caribbean Fables: Animal Stories from Guyana and the Antilles

Title

en_US Caribbean Fables: Animal Stories from Guyana and the Antilles

Description

en_US First edition

en_US Collected and narrated by Dorothy St. Aubyn

Creator

en_US St. Aubyn, Dorothy See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:02Z

en_US 2009-11

en_US 2007

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US The illustrations, the verso of the title-page tells us, first appeared in two calendars for 2005 and 2006, designed by Paria Publishing Company for Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited in Guyana. Unfortunately, it is hard to find out who created them. They are full-page, colored, simple, lively cartoon-like representations. Sometimes a part of the lively design will be repeated later in the story. The stories themselves are chatty and often aetiological, like How the Dog got its cold Nose (12). One of these, Capouey and his two Wives (14), describes how the Milky Way was formed as a barrier between two realms in either of which Capouey, the moon, has one wife. Usually a teller and an audience is identified. Perhaps the most striking of the illustrations portrays the old woman dealing with two crabs (19). This image has strong colors and images! The book has a curious habit of capitalizing in its titles only the nouns.

Identifier

en_US 9789768054722

en_US 6755 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82066

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Paria Publishing Company Limited

en_US Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Subject

en_US GR121 .N42 2007 See all items with this value

en_US Caribbean See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole