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The Maroon as Metaphor for Resistance in Latin American Film Third World Film Professor: Andrew Millington Student: James Cheek Date Due: May 3, 2004 FINAL PAPER:
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Third World Film
Professor: Andrew Millington
Student: James Cheek
Date Due: May 3, 2004
FINAL PAPER: The Maroon as Metaphor for Resistance in Latin American Film
Cultural surrender is more than a matter of rejecting one's father and mother culture. It means that one accepts a new definition as a person. The culturally dependent person is a mere spectator, a receptacle for the creativities of others. To demand freedom from slavery only to use that freedom to commit one's self to a voluntary cultural servitude is to lose the chance to be human.
- Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III from The Maroon Within Us
I. The Maroon as metaphor for resistance in Third World
The struggle of the maroon is indeed a model for all forms of resistance to oppression. We see throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and the Third World, examples of the maroon legacy. The Tupac Amaru guerilla freedom fighters camped out deep in the mountainous Amazonian forests of Peru are examples of this maroon spirit that permeates revolution. There is little doubt that Fidel Castro and his confidant Ernesto "Che" Guevarra were not steeped in the oral history of the maroon armed struggle in Cuba, Jamaica and elsewhere. As they puffed on their hand rolled Criollos, hidden deep in the Sierra Madre mountains, plotting guerilla tactics against Batista's regime, there is certainty that their resistance was more akin to the likes of Cudjoe and Ganga Zumba than Lenin or Engels. Even the African Mao Mao as far away as Kenya and the Viet Cong of Indochina were reminiscent of the maroon in ethos, thought and action.
II. Origins of Maroons in Caribbean and Latin America
According to some accounts, the presence of African and mixed African and Indian maroon societies predates Columbus by hundreds if not thousands of years. Leading among scholars in this area is Dr. Ivan Van Sertima ,...
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