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Maroons and the marooned : runaways and castaways in the Americas /
"Commonly, the word maroon refers to someone cast away on an island. One becomes marooned, usually, through a storm at sea or by a captain as a method of punishment. But the term originally denoted escaped slaves. Though being marooned came to be associated mostly with white European castaways,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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| Colección: | Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- "Mingled fear and ferocity" : a glimpse into the maroon communities of the Great Dismal Swamp / J. Brent Morris
- Belonging and alienation : Gullah Jack and some maroon dimensions of the "Denmark Vesey Conspiracy" / James O'Neil Spady
- "We will never surrender!" : Quilombos, their descendants, and the struggle for land and rights in Brazil's Ribeira / Edward Shore
- The Bermuda assemblage : toward a posthuman globalization / Steven Mentz
- Bookends of history : maroonage in The Female American and Die Wand / Peter Sands
- Castaways, re-captive slaves, and resistance : testing the boundaries of freedom in the work of Yvette Christiansë / Simon Lewis
- The opacity of home
- being marooned at the end of the world / Claire Curtis
- "Lest darkness fall" : castaways in time and space in popular turn-of-the-century fiction / Richard Bodek
- Maroons and the American epic / Joseph Kelly
- List of contributors
- Index.