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    8. Defining Jamaican fiction: marronage and the discourse of survival

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    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.

    9. Flight to freedom: African runaways and maroons in the Americas

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Thompson,Alvin O. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    381 p., About the struggles of enslaved Africans inthe Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of Maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders. Incontestably, Maroon communities constituted the first independent polities from European colonial rule in the hemisphere, even if the colonial states did not accord them legal recognition.

    11. Guerras de los Palmares

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Carneiro,Edison (Author) and Tomás Muñoz Molina (Translator)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Spanish
    Publication Date:
    1946
    Published:
    México: Fondo de Cultura Económica
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Translation of O quilombo dos Palmares., 182 p.

    12. Haitian Maroons

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    James,C. L. R. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    November, 1975
    Published:
    Chicago: Johnson Pub. Co
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black World
    Journal Title Details:
    25(1) : 64-69

    13. Haitian maroons: liberty or death

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Fouchard,Jean (Author) and A. Faulkner Watts (Translator)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1981
    Published:
    New York, NY: E.W. Blyden Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Preface by C.L.R. James; Translation of: Les marrons de la liberté., 386 p.

    15. Juan de Bolas and His Pelinco

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Buisseret,David (Author) and Taylor,S. A. G. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    March-June, 1978
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    24(1-2) : 1-7

    16. Los cimarrones del maniel de Neiba: historia y etnografía

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Deive,Carlos Esteban (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Spanish
    Publication Date:
    1985
    Published:
    Santo Domingo, República Dominicana: Banco Central de la República Dominicana
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    199 p., The Maroons of Neiba Maniel: History and Ethnography.