Emily Zobel Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Zobel Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily Zobel |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL E Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Claiming Space in a Hostile Environment
This hybrid article combines memoir, poetry and cultural and literary critique to examine the multiple hostile environments faced by Black migrants to Europe in the twentieth century. Emily Zobel Marshall draws from her own family history alongside an analysis of established ‘Windrush’ literary narratives to argue that narratives of Caribbean migration are competing, complex and multifaced when framed within a wider, more transnational field. She…
The Study and the Den
I Stole the Torturer’s Tongue”
Nothing but Pleasant Memories of the Discipline of Slavery”
The anarchic trickster spider Anansi, whose origins can be traced back to West Africa, is predominantly found in Anglophone Caribbean folktales, while Brer Rabbit, who originates from South, Central and East Africa, is popular across the French-speaking Caribbean and USA. Brer Rabbit tales entered white American mainstream culture in the late nineteenth century through Joel Chandler Harris’s ‘Uncle Remus’ collections. Harris, whose collections ar…
Writing the Woman’s Voice
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze was born in 1956 and brought up by her grandparents in rural Jamaica. She studied at the Jamaican school of drama and first visited London in 1985 to take part in the International Book Fair of Radical and Third World Books on the invitation of internationally renown dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. In the 1970s and ‘80s in London, Breeze became a pioneering poetic voice in the radical black community in a traditionally male dom…
Resistance through ‘Robber-Talk’
Storytelling Strategies and the Carnival TricksterThe Midnight Robber is a quintessential Trinidadian carnival 'badman.' Dressed in a black sombrero adorned with skulls and coffin-shaped shoes, his long, eloquent speeches descend from the West African 'griot' (storyteller) tradition and detail the vengeance he will wreak on his oppressors.He exemplifies many of the practices that are central to Caribbean carnival cultureresistance to officialdom,…
Dans Cette Immensité Tumultueuse’ (In This Vast Tumult)
Anansi's Journey
This interdisciplinary study examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales. Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean. He symbolizes key aspects of Afro-Caribbean culture and is celebrated as a vital link with an African past. Anansi stories, in which the small spider turns the tables on his powerful enemies through cunning and trickery, are now told and publ…
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing
Despite being a highly specialized study, Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing has much to offer academics working in the fields of diaspora and gender studies. Its title is rather misleading, however; while it purports to be an examination of Caribbean women's writing, its focus is on francophone authors. Mehta explores the complexities of identity from a gendered perspective in the novels of Maryse Condé and Gi…
Lorsque je vais dans mon village’ (When I return to my village)
Liminal Anansi
Anansi is a complex and intriguing figure who has woven a fine tapestry of tales across the New World. Born in West Africa, Anansi survived a cultural metamorphosis and became symbolic of the struggles of the black slave. Like Anansi, the slaves worked at overturning the structured hierarchy of their environment and, from their harsh experience, coded strategies of survival. However, there is little reliable information regarding the roots of thi…
Liminal Anansi
Anansi is a complex and intriguing figure who has woven a fine tapestry of tales across the New World. Born in West Africa, Anansi survived a cultural metamorphosis and became symbolic of the struggles of the black slave. Like Anansi, the slaves worked at overturning the structured hierarchy of their environment and, from their harsh experience, coded strategies of survival. However, there is little reliable information regarding the roots of thi…
Resistance through ‘Robber-Talk’
Storytelling Strategies and the Carnival TricksterThe Midnight Robber is a quintessential Trinidadian carnival 'badman.' Dressed in a black sombrero adorned with skulls and coffin-shaped shoes, his long, eloquent speeches descend from the West African 'griot' (storyteller) tradition and detail the vengeance he will wreak on his oppressors.He exemplifies many of the practices that are central to Caribbean carnival cultureresistance to officialdom,…
Dans Cette Immensité Tumultueuse’ (In This Vast Tumult)
Lorsque je vais dans mon village’ (When I return to my village)
Liminal Anansi
Anansi is a complex and intriguing figure who has woven a fine tapestry of tales across the New World. Born in West Africa, Anansi survived a cultural metamorphosis and became symbolic of the struggles of the black slave. Like Anansi, the slaves worked at overturning the structured hierarchy of their environment and, from their harsh experience, coded strategies of survival. However, there is little reliable information regarding the roots of thi…
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing
Despite being a highly specialized study, Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing has much to offer academics working in the fields of diaspora and gender studies. Its title is rather misleading, however; while it purports to be an examination of Caribbean women's writing, its focus is on francophone authors. Mehta explores the complexities of identity from a gendered perspective in the novels of Maryse Condé and Gi…
Lorsque je vais dans mon village’ (When I return to my village)
Anansi's Journey
This interdisciplinary study examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales. Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean. He symbolizes key aspects of Afro-Caribbean culture and is celebrated as a vital link with an African past. Anansi stories, in which the small spider turns the tables on his powerful enemies through cunning and trickery, are now told and publ…
Dans Cette Immensité Tumultueuse’ (In This Vast Tumult)
Resistance through ‘Robber-Talk’
Storytelling Strategies and the Carnival TricksterThe Midnight Robber is a quintessential Trinidadian carnival 'badman.' Dressed in a black sombrero adorned with skulls and coffin-shaped shoes, his long, eloquent speeches descend from the West African 'griot' (storyteller) tradition and detail the vengeance he will wreak on his oppressors.He exemplifies many of the practices that are central to Caribbean carnival cultureresistance to officialdom,…
Writing the Woman’s Voice
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze was born in 1956 and brought up by her grandparents in rural Jamaica. She studied at the Jamaican school of drama and first visited London in 1985 to take part in the International Book Fair of Radical and Third World Books on the invitation of internationally renown dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. In the 1970s and ‘80s in London, Breeze became a pioneering poetic voice in the radical black community in a traditionally male dom…
Nothing but Pleasant Memories of the Discipline of Slavery”
The anarchic trickster spider Anansi, whose origins can be traced back to West Africa, is predominantly found in Anglophone Caribbean folktales, while Brer Rabbit, who originates from South, Central and East Africa, is popular across the French-speaking Caribbean and USA. Brer Rabbit tales entered white American mainstream culture in the late nineteenth century through Joel Chandler Harris’s ‘Uncle Remus’ collections. Harris, whose collections ar…
I Stole the Torturer’s Tongue”
The Study and the Den
Claiming Space in a Hostile Environment
This hybrid article combines memoir, poetry and cultural and literary critique to examine the multiple hostile environments faced by Black migrants to Europe in the twentieth century. Emily Zobel Marshall draws from her own family history alongside an analysis of established ‘Windrush’ literary narratives to argue that narratives of Caribbean migration are competing, complex and multifaced when framed within a wider, more transnational field. She…
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