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......

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