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"I started writing because there was a need inside of me to create something that was not there."
Audre Lorde
Gillian Lee-Fong writes with historical precision and lyrical intensity about the complex multi-cultural heritage of seventeenth century Jamaican Maroons—an autonomous society of formerly enslaved people who escaped their captors. Born in Jamaica to parents of African, Chinese and Maroon heritage, she draws on her own personal connection to Jamaican culture and the liminal spaces of identity to explore the lasting implications and influences of the Maroons.
Maroon commander illustrated by Stedman in the late 18th century.
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