| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 481 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Caribbean literature in transition ; volume 1 |
| Contents |
Introduction / Evelyn O'Callaghan and Tim Watson, with contributions from Marlene L. Daut -- Literary and generic transitions. Conquest narratives / Kelly Wisecup -- Creole testimonies in Caribbean women's slave narratives / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Jonkanoo performances of resistance, freedom, and memory / Jenna M. Gibbs -- Caribbean picturesque from William Beckford to contemporary tourism / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- From novels of the Caribbean, to Caribbean novels / Candace Ward -- Early Caribbean poetry and the modern reader / John T. Gilmore -- Towards a West Indian romance poetics / Rhonda Kareen Harrison -- Cultural and political transitions. John Jacob Thomas and the grammar of freedom / Faith L. Smith -- How Barbados transformed radical British author Eliza Fenwick into a reactionary / Lissa Paul -- Mary Seacole's travels and tales / Norval (Nadi) Edwards -- Genealogy and nonhistory in Adolphus, a tale / RJ Boutelle -- Obeah, religion, and nineteenth-century literature of the anglophone Caribbean / Janelle Rodriques -- The Caribbean region in transition. Antillean sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean writing / Marlene L. Daut -- Caribbean literature as diasporic archive / Rhonda Cobham-Sander -- The representation of the Caribbean in nineteenth-century African American newspapers / Curdella Forbes -- The impact of the American Civil War on political writing in Jamaica and Cuba / Jonathon T. Booth -- South Asian migration and settlement stories, 1800-1920 / Atreyee Phukan -- Francophone-anglophone connections in the nineteenth-century Caribbean / Elizabeth Kelly -- Cuban literature before 1920 : antislavery, historiography, women's writing, and the nation / Daylet Domínguez -- José Martí, José Rizal, and their speculative extended Caribbean / Susan Gillman -- Translating the revolution from Haiti to Louisiana / Sarah Jessica Johnson -- Critical transitions. Creative rewritings of early Caribbean texts / Sheri-Marie Harrison -- Digital restaging of early Caribbean texts / Laurie N. Taylor -- Lost mothers in the Caribbean plantation and contemporary Black maternal and infant mortality / Kerry Sinanan -- Reading the colonial archive through Joscelyn Gardner's Creole portraits I-III / Melanie Otto |
| Summary |
"Caribbean Literature in Transition ambitiously redefines received ideas of this region's literary traditions to present a significantly expanded terrain for critical intervention. By extending the chronology back to 1800, before either the Caribbean or Literature had been imagined in their present currencies, challenging narrow definitions of literary production, and reaching across linguistic divides, the critical interventions that comprise this series deliver a substantially new framework for future study and research. Boldly inclusive, Caribbean Literature in Transition attends to transformations in genre, language, form, and platform as well as to the intricate creative intersections between oral, performative and literary cultures, the intensity of cultural encounters and exchanges that have forged creolized sensibilities, and the complex patterning of local and global diasporas that have remained central to Caribbean experience and have continued to shape the production and reception of its writings. The essays collected here explore how Caribbean literary history is marked by returning creative and critical preoccupations, as well as overlapping local and global connections inscribed by thick historiesof oppression and resistance. The series importantly refreshes understandings of this history for the twenty first century by drawing on the invigoratingtheoretical insights of black atlantic studies, queer studies, eco-criticism and the digital humanities, as well as historical materials newly restored by the archival turn in Caribbean Studies. In sum, Caribbean Literature in Transition both generates fresh approaches to familiar works and brings overlooked and forgotten works into view"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2020) |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
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Caribbean literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Caribbean Area
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Caribbean literature.
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Caribbean literature (English)
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Literature and society.
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Caribbean Area.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Callaghan, Evelyn, editor.
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Watson, Tim, 1965- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020025515 |
| ISBN |
9781108647830 |
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1108647839 |
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9781108564274 |
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1108564275 |
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