Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream

ISBN-13: 9783319715919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 231 str.

Nicole N. Aljoe; Brycchan Carey; Thomas W. Krise

Opis

The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant `native' literary culture until the postcolonial period. However, as recent research has shown, although the printing press did not arrive in the Caribbean until 1718, the roots of Caribbean literary history predate its arrival.

Recenzje

"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)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).