The maroon narrative
Subtitle: Caribbean literature in English across boundaries, ethnicities, and centuries
By: Cynthia James.
Series: Studies in Caribbean literature,
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Fugitive slaves in literature.; Maroons in literature.; Blacks in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-130) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Toward Formulating a Literary History for Caribbean Literature in English; title: 1 Conceptualizing the Maroon Narrative; title: Current Descriptions of Caribbean Literature in English; title: Current Literary Maroon Theories; title: Exploring the Maroon Paradigm; title: Defining the Maroon Narrative; title: 2 Seventeenth-Century Imperial Narratives; title: Introducing the Protagonists; title: 3 Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Colonization and Creolization; title: Travel Narratives and Narratives of Settlement; title: 4 Nineteenth-Century Narratives: Narratives of Abandonment; title: Nineteenth-Century Narratives from Diverse Sources; title: 5 The Maroon Narrative, 1900-1969; title: Three Progressions Toward Mid-Twentieth-Century; title: 6 Migration and the Maroon Narrative of the 1970s and 1980s; title: The British Experience; title: 7 Dialogism and Intertextuality in the Maroon Narrative Resistance Dialogue, Sentimental Discourses, and Transformation of Maroon Structures; title: The Dialogue of Resistance and the Language of Leadership; title: Transformations of Maroon Structures in Caribbean Literature; title: 8 Gender and Hemispheric Shifts in the Maroon Narrative at the Close of the Twentieth Century; title: The Emergence of the Caribbean Female Writer in the Americas; title: Conclusion: The Caribbean Narrative into the Twenty-First; title: Century.