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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... obeahman having been swept over a waterfall . The novel is significant as the only extant nineteenth - century fiction in which a Maroon is a central character . The action also follows the revenge of an obeahman who has been brutally ...
... obeahman having been swept over a waterfall . The novel is significant as the only extant nineteenth - century fiction in which a Maroon is a central character . The action also follows the revenge of an obeahman who has been brutally ...
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... obeahman ( Hamel ) directs the plan but later averts it in the interest of a young adventurer ( Fairfax ) who is in love with the young woman whom Roland seeks to abduct , the daughter of the plantation owner on the threatened property ...
... obeahman ( Hamel ) directs the plan but later averts it in the interest of a young adventurer ( Fairfax ) who is in love with the young woman whom Roland seeks to abduct , the daughter of the plantation owner on the threatened property ...
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... obeahman ( 1:17 ) . Early on , he finds himself longing for emancipation from the obeah- man's abode and power . Actually , Roland turns out to be a villain of gothic dimensions , loading the novel with that danger and sexually tinged ...
... obeahman ( 1:17 ) . Early on , he finds himself longing for emancipation from the obeah- man's abode and power . Actually , Roland turns out to be a villain of gothic dimensions , loading the novel with that danger and sexually tinged ...
Table des matières
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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