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Maroons and the Marooned : Runaways and Castaways in the Americas /

"A provocative juxtaposition of escaped slaves and the shipwrecked across the Americas"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kelly, Joseph, 1962- (Editor ), Bodek, Richard, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.