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

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$a 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.

$a 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.

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$a Caribbean literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism.

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