Nanny of the Maroons

The contrast becomes sharper when Brod asks about Nanny of the Maroons and Viv replies, “Never heard of her” in Scene 2. Nanny was an eighteenth-century leader of Jamaica’s Windward Maroons and is a Jamaican national heroine associated with resistance to British colonial rule. Viv’s ignorance is not evidence of low intelligence: it exposes a gap in what she has been taught.