Beyond boundaries : the intellectual tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the nineteenth century / Selwyn R. Cudjoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (Selwyn Reginald)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature (English)--History and criticism.

Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature (English).

Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature.

Intellectual life.

Trinidad and Tobago--Intellectual life--19th century.

Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Wellesley, Mass. : Calaloux Publications ; Amherst : Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Contents:

1 The Menace of Color 7

2 Free Mulatto and the Early Expressions of Trinidad's Literature 22

3 Children of the Dark 43

4 The Textuality of Colonialism 65

5 Jammetization of the Culture, 1838-1851 88

6 The Emergence of a National Voice, 1852-1858 119

7 Naming the Land 143

8 Cultural Resistance: The Emergence of the Carnivalesque 173

9 Signs Taken as Wonders: Race and Race-Consciousness 193

10 Bodies in the West... 215

11 Cultural Self-Assertion: Savagery versus Civilization 250

12 The Romanticization of the Amerindian 275

13 The Negro's Grievance: Literature in the Service of a Cause 296

14 "Knights of the Mask" 319

15 The Revindication of the Races 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-383) and index.

ISBN:

1558493182

1558493913

OCLC:

50905986