Caribbean literature in transition, 1800-1920. Volume 1 / edited by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Tim Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Callaghan, Evelyn, editor.

Watson, Tim, 1965- editor.

Series:

Caribbean literature in transition ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English).

Caribbean literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--Caribbean Area.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-65404-5

1-108-67832-7

1-108-64783-9

OCLC:

1237399415