Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution / Gesine Müller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Gesine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean Area--Social conditions--19th century.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

English.

Biography/History:

Gesine Müller, University of Cologne, Germany.

Summary:

The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies - in contrast to France's strong presence and binding force - is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence.The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I Introduction

II Literature and the Colonial Question

III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between

IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation

V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities

VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes

VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation

VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean

IX Conclusion

X Works Cited

Afterword

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110492330

3110492334

9783110495416

3110495414

OCLC:

1037979877

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access