Maroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature.
| ISBN: | 9780817307820 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 1996 |
| Author: | Barbara Lalla |
| Publisher: | The University of Alabama Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Slavery and abolition of slavery Literary theory Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |