Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of SurvivalMarronage - 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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The text achieves this revision largely through metaphor. The cognitive
significance of any metaphor arises from its capacity to restructure or induce a
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The text achieves this revision largely through metaphor. The cognitive
significance of any metaphor arises from its capacity to restructure or induce a
new structure on a given content domain, that area of experience defined by the
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By confronting the reader with ordered contrast sets, the text unfolds its meaning
through the metaphor of the sea, which represents the enormity of Zachariah's
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By confronting the reader with ordered contrast sets, the text unfolds its meaning
through the metaphor of the sea, which represents the enormity of Zachariah's
situation. The reader encounters items in this semantic field not only in an
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By reordering one content domain, such as human suffering, in accordance with
the relations governing the semantic field of another content domain, such as that
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By reordering one content domain, such as human suffering, in accordance with
the relations governing the semantic field of another content domain, such as that
of the sea, metaphor effects a perspectival shift and in a sense establishes new ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
alienation Aloysius Aloysius's Annancy Antoinette Antoinette's Britain British Brodber's Busha's Caribbean literature characters civilization colonial consciousness constrained context contrast conveys Creole crucial culture defines 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
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| Titre | Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival |
| Auteur | Barbara Lalla |
| Éditeur | University of Alabama Press, 1996 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 4 mars 2008 |
| ISBN | 0817307826, 9780817307820 |
| Longueur | 224 pages |
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