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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... crucial feature is not its boundedness or completion but its ongoing and re- current pain : " I took another road , past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years . I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not ...
... crucial feature is not its boundedness or completion but its ongoing and re- current pain : " I took another road , past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years . I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not ...
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... crucial to setting . At the same time , Antoinette's monologue springs from her deprivation of her native setting and from confinement to the attic . The language variation that is crucial to characterization is a variation not only ...
... crucial to setting . At the same time , Antoinette's monologue springs from her deprivation of her native setting and from confinement to the attic . The language variation that is crucial to characterization is a variation not only ...
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... crucial for the reader to assess accu- rately the enormity of the fisherman's isolation and resistance . By confronting the reader with ordered contrast sets , the text unfolds its meaning through the metaphor of the sea , which ...
... crucial for the reader to assess accu- rately the enormity of the fisherman's isolation and resistance . By confronting the reader with ordered contrast sets , the text unfolds its meaning through the metaphor of the sea , which ...
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The Jamaican Outsider in the Caribbean Canon | 56 |
Jamaican Perspectives | 83 |
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action alienation alternative Antoinette Antoinette's appears associated becomes begins Britain British Caribbean central characters civilization colonial consciousness context contrast conveys Creole crucial culture defined definition describes dimensions discourse distance distinct English essentially European existence expected experience exploitation expression fact fiction forces Hamel human includes individual involves island isolation Jacko Jamaican language leave linguistic literary literature logical Lunatic madness Maroon marronage meaning metaphor mind moral mother narrative narrator nature never novel offers past perspective physical political present psychological question reader recognizes reference reflects rejection relations relationship resistance responsibility semantic semantic field sense separation setting shared shifts ship slaves social society speaker speech Standard stereotypes structure takes theme tion traditional truth turn values violence vision voice Wide Sargasso Sea wilderness woman writer