Strolling Players of Empire Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833
Book contents
- Strolling Players of Empire
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Strolling Players of Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I Playing
- Part II Theaters of Empire
- 4 Performances of Freedom
- 5 Blackface Empire: or, the Slavery Meridian
- 6 Zanga’s Colony
- Part III East India Company Peripheries and the History of Modernity
- Book part
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
4 - Performances of Freedom
Jamaican Maroons in Imperial Transit
from Part II - Theaters of Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
Book contents
- Strolling Players of Empire
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Strolling Players of Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I Playing
- Part II Theaters of Empire
- 4 Performances of Freedom
- 5 Blackface Empire: or, the Slavery Meridian
- 6 Zanga’s Colony
- Part III East India Company Peripheries and the History of Modernity
- Book part
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
An examination of Maroon cultural, festive and political practices, their victorious militarized Black masculinity and their wider transimperial significance as figures of resistance or reconciliation, as images of the the red-coated Maroon circulated across imperial networks
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- Strolling Players of EmpireTheater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833, pp. 201 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022