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Defining Jamaican fiction : marronage and the discourse of survival by Lalla Ph.D., Dr. Barbara is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. The Dimensions Of Marronage In Jamaica -- An Assembly Of Strangers: Isolation And British Romanticism In Jamaican Settings Of The Nineteenth Century -- The Jamaican Outsider In The Caribbean Canon -- Naked Into The Storm: Winkler And The Wilderness Within -- The Trackless Past Of Hearne's Sure Salvation -- Re-membering The Marooned Consciousne
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lalla Ph.D., Dr. Barbara
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817307820
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14