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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution /

The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by mean...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müller, Gesine (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Subjects:
Caribbean literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Social change > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Caribbean literature (French) > Social aspects.
Caribbean literature (Spanish) > Social aspects.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and society > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Caribbean literature > Colonial influence.
Caribbean Area > Social conditions > 19th century.
(Post)Colonial Studies.
(Post)Koloniale Literatur.
Caribbean Literature.
Cultural Transfer.
Karibische Literatur.
Kulturtransfer.
Romanticism.
Romantik.
Littérature antillaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature antillaise (française) > Aspect social.
Littérature antillaise (espagnole) > Aspect social.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Caraïbes (Région) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Social & cultural history.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
Social conditions
Social change
Literature and society
Imperialism in literature
Caribbean literature > Colonial influence
Caribbean literature
Caribbean Area
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I Introduction
  • II Literature and the Colonial Question
  • III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between
  • IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation
  • V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities
  • VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes
  • VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation
  • VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
  • IX Conclusion
  • X Works Cited
  • Afterword