"Any scholar interested in the literature of the Anglophone Caribbean would do well to consult it, as would those studying the evolution of literature and book production within the British Empire." (Sam Clark, Modern Language Review, Vol. 115, January, 2020)
1 Introduction
Nicole N. Aljoe, Brycchan Carey, and Thomas W. Krise
2 “Memory, Rememory, and the Moral Constitution
of Caribbean Literary History”
Keith Sandiford
3 Early Caribbean Evangelical Life Narrative
Sue Thomas
4 The Promise of the Tropics: Wealth, Illness, and African
Bodies in Early Anglo-Caribbean Medical Writing
Kelly Wisecup
5 Order, Disorder, and Reorder: The Paradox of Creole
Representations in Caribbeana (1741)
Jo Anne Harris
6 Testimonies of the Enslaved in the Caribbean Literary
History
Nicole N. Aljoe
7 Beyond Bonny and Read: Blackbeard’s Bride and Other
Women in Caribbean Piracy Narratives
Richard Frohock
8 Early Creole Novels in English Before 1850: Hamel,
the Obeah Man and Warner Arundell: The Adventures
of a Creole
Candace Ward and Tim Watson
9 Colonial Vices and Metropolitan Corrections: Satire
and Slavery in the Early Caribbean
Brycchan Carey
10 Finding the Modern in Early Caribbean Literature
Cassander L. Smith
Nicole N. Aljoe is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northeastern University, USA. She is co-director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and editor of Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society. Author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1836 (Palgrave, 2012), she also co-edited Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014).
Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807 (Palgrave, 2005) and From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658–1761 (2012). His edition of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative was published in 2018.
Thomas W. Krise is President Emeritus and Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA. A former president of the Early Caribbean Society and the Society of Early Americanists, he is the editor of Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (1999).