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2. Defining Jamaican fiction: marronage and the discourse of survival
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lalla,Barbara (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 224 p., 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. 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.
3. Nègre marron: récit
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Confiant,Raphaël (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Paris, France: Écriture
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 210 p., From the days of slavery, the Negro from Martinique has never stopped "marronner", that is to say, to try to escape his condition, winning the great woods, the plebeians districts boroughs or even the neighboring islands. Simon, principal figure of the book, was one of them. He knew in the 17th century the arrival of the first slaves from Africa Guinea, the eighteenth hell of sugar plantations in the nineteenth fever abolition, in the early twentieth that of marching strikes and, at the dawn of XXI, the mare desperadoes of false modernity.
4. The fourth century = Le quatrième siècle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Glissant,Edouard (Author) and Wing,Betsy (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- eng
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 294 p., Tells of the quest by Mathieu Beluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique. This book tells of the love-hate relationship between the Longoue and Beluse families, whose ancestors were brought as slaves to Martinique.