This week's seminar focused on Pamela Colman Smith's Annancy Stories, a series of African/Jamaican folktales published in 1899. Pamela Colman Smith was an author, illustrator, and publisher born to an American father and Jamaican mother. The Annancy stories is a transatlantic text unlike the other texts from previous weeks focuses on stories that originate outside of Britain. The Annancy stories originated in West Africa and were brought to Jamaica by enslaved Africans through the British slave trade.

Through our discussion of the Annancy Stories by Pamela Colman Smith, I found the text to be a perfect example of how an image, although potentially a direct reflection of its text, can add so much significant meaning that the words lone never would have brought out.