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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... Salvation Ghosts without consolation , unable to communicate with the living or with each other . Each doomed to circle the place of death , in silence , forever . -John Hearne , The Sure Salvation HERE IS LITTLE mention of Jamaica in ...
... Salvation Ghosts without consolation , unable to communicate with the living or with each other . Each doomed to circle the place of death , in silence , forever . -John Hearne , The Sure Salvation HERE IS LITTLE mention of Jamaica in ...
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... Sure Salvation such oppositions collapse , as is especially obvious in the horrible intertwining of symbolism for food and excrement . Once again binarism oversimplifies the distinction between value and worthlessness ... Sure Salvation 169.
... Sure Salvation such oppositions collapse , as is especially obvious in the horrible intertwining of symbolism for food and excrement . Once again binarism oversimplifies the distinction between value and worthlessness ... Sure Salvation 169.
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... Sure Salvation and the underlying insanity of local civili- zation in The Lunatic indicate that the dialectic is not between individuality and homogenous normativity but between self ( or subgroup ) and a commu- nity riddled with its ...
... Sure Salvation and the underlying insanity of local civili- zation in The Lunatic indicate that the dialectic is not between individuality and homogenous normativity but between self ( or subgroup ) and a commu- nity riddled with its ...
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The Jamaican Outsider in the Caribbean Canon | 56 |
Jamaican Perspectives | 83 |
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