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Crossing the line : early Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation /

"Crossing the Line examines a group of novels by white creoles -- white writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Four novels anchor the study: three anonymously published works, Montgomery; or, the West-Indian Adventurer (1...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ward, Candace (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Collection:New World studies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: why creole? why the novel?
  • Hortus creolensis: cultivating the creole novel
  • "A permanent revolution": time, history, and constructions of Africa in Cynric Williams's Hamel, the obeah man
  • "Lost subjects": the specter of idleness and the work of Marly; or, a planter's life in Jamaica
  • Recentering the Caribbean: revolution and the creole cosmopolis in Warner Arundell
  • Conclusion: the unfinished business of early creole (historical) novels.