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Contributions by Richard Bodek, Claire P. Curtis, Joseph Kelly,
Simon Lewis, Steve Mentz, J. Brent Morris, Peter Sands, Edward
Shore, and James O'Neil Spady 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, the etymology invites comparison between true maroons
(escaped slaves establishing new lives in the wilderness) and
people who were marooned (through maritime disaster). This volume
brings together literary scholars with historians, encompassing
both literal maroons such as in Brazil and South Carolina as well
as metaphoric scenarios in time-travel novels and postapocalyptic
narratives. Included are examples from The Tempest; Margaret
Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court; and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Both runaways and castaways
formed new societies in the wilderness. But true maroons, escaped
slaves, were not cast away; they chose to fly towards the
uncertainties of the wild in pursuit of freedom. In effect, this
volume gives these maroons proper credit, at the very heart of
American history.
Contributions by Richard Bodek, Claire P. Curtis, Joseph Kelly,
Simon Lewis, Steve Mentz, J. Brent Morris, Peter Sands, Edward
Shore, and James O'Neil Spady 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, the etymology invites comparison between true maroons
(escaped slaves establishing new lives in the wilderness) and
people who were marooned (through maritime disaster). This volume
brings together literary scholars with historians, encompassing
both literal maroons such as in Brazil and South Carolina as well
as metaphoric scenarios in time-travel novels and postapocalyptic
narratives. Included are examples from The Tempest; Margaret
Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court; and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Both runaways and castaways
formed new societies in the wilderness. But true maroons, escaped
slaves, were not cast away; they chose to fly towards the
uncertainties of the wild in pursuit of freedom. In effect, this
volume gives these maroons proper credit, at the very heart of
American history.
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