Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of SurvivalUniversity of Alabama Press, 1996 - 224 pages Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Attributes of the maroon character surface in other character types that crowd Jamaica's literary history - resentful strangers, travelers, and fugitives; desperate misfits and strays; recluses, rejects, wild men, and outcasts; and rebels in physical and psychological wildernesses. Defining Jamaican Fiction identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes. |
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... Annancy story . Annancy , the master fabricator , weaves his escape from strands that are the expectations of the enemy - an intensely satisfying transgression but one in which it is possible to be entangled forever . Readers are never ...
... Annancy story . Annancy , the master fabricator , weaves his escape from strands that are the expectations of the enemy - an intensely satisfying transgression but one in which it is possible to be entangled forever . Readers are never ...
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... Annancy , escape lies in dissimulative behavior , but such is not the way out for Nellie . In defining Annancy as the slave who survives by rash actions , without giving in to the master , Patrick Taylor ( 129 ) refers to Frantz Fanon's ...
... Annancy , escape lies in dissimulative behavior , but such is not the way out for Nellie . In defining Annancy as the slave who survives by rash actions , without giving in to the master , Patrick Taylor ( 129 ) refers to Frantz Fanon's ...
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... Annancy's language is evasive discourse , the code of the outsider . Not only has Annancy , the weaver of schemes , degenerated from Anànse , the West African deity who weaves the world and the fates of men , but his char- acteristic ...
... Annancy's language is evasive discourse , the code of the outsider . Not only has Annancy , the weaver of schemes , degenerated from Anànse , the West African deity who weaves the world and the fates of men , but his char- acteristic ...
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2 | 23 |
The Jamaican Outsider in the Caribbean Canon | 56 |
Jamaican Perspectives | 83 |
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alienation Aloysius Aloysius's Annancy Antoinette Antoinette's Britain British Brodber's Busha's Caribbean literature characters civilization colonial consciousness constraints context contrast conveys Creole crucial culture defined deixis diglossia dimensions distance distinct Eliza's epistemes Eurocentric experience exploitation feminine Gikandi Hamel Hearne highlights Hogarth human ideological imperial intertextuality island isolation Jacko Jamaican Creole Jamaican fiction Jamaican literature Jamaican setting Jane Eyre Jean Rhys King Lear kumbla language linguistic literary discourse logical Lunatic madness Marly Maroon marronage meaning metaphor mind mother Myal narrative narrator nineteenth-century norms novel Obeah obeahman old negar outcast Painted Canoe past perspective physical postcolonial protagonist psychological reader relationship resistance Rhys romantic romanticism semantic semantic drift semantic field sense separation shifts slaves social society spatial speaker speech Standard English stereotypes structure Sure Salvation theme tion traditional truth values violence vision voice Wide Sargasso Sea wilderness Winkler woman writer Zachariah