Jamaican Female Masculinities: Nanny of the Maroons and the Genealogy of the Man-Royal

Allsopp, in his discussion of the meaning of "royal" additionally notes that in its verb form, the term describes "[a]n extreme of emotion such as anger, drunken merriness" (478). [...]to "be in your royal" is to be "heartily drunk" or "abusively angry" (Allsopp 478). [...]she is mentioned in the Land Patent signed as a part of the treaty to end the first Maroon War. [...]I would argue that the Nanny we know and narrate is largely the product of the demands of a post-independence Jamaican nationalist discourse. [...]in considering narratives about and representations of Nanny, the historical moment of her actual existence is less important than the consideration of sites and moments of her figurative construction both in historiographical, literary and popular discourse. [...]I want to suggest that it allows us to revisit and deepen our understanding of the question of how hegemonic masculinity is complexly situated, defined and discussed in relation to other masculinities and in particular in relation to female masculinities.