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CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSITION, – This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before bysurveyingtheprintcultureoftheperiod.Theemphasisison narrative,includinganenormousrangeofgenres,invaryingvenues,and in multiple languages of the Caribbean.Essaysexamine lesserknown authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; nonelite 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 withinthetextsofthedominantclasses.Almostallofthechaptersmove easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary move mentsinwaysthatexpandtraditionalnotionsofliteraryinfluenceand canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this bookprovidesacompletereexaminationofearlyCaribbeanliterature. ’ is Professor of West Indian Literature, UniversityoftheWestIndies,CaveHill.Herpublishedworkincludes articles and chapters on West Indian literature, particularly on women’swriting,earlyCaribbeannarratives,and,morerecently,eco criticalreadingsofCaribbeanlandscapesinvisualandscribaltexts.She has published Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian FictionbyWomen();WomenWritingtheWestIndies, : ‘A Hot Place, Belonging to Us’ (), and edited early Caribbean novels by Frieda Cassin and Elma Napier. Most recently, she co editedCaribbeanIrishConnections()andMadnessinAnglophone CaribbeanLiterature:OntheEdge().SheisEditorinChiefofthe JournalofWestIndianLiterature. isProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofMiami.Heis theauthorofCaribbeanCultureandBritishFictionintheAtlanticWorld, ()andCultureWriting:LiteratureandAnthropologyin the Midcentury Atlantic World (). With Candace Ward, he coeditedtheBroadvieweditionofHamel,theObeahMan(). Published online by Cambridge University Press General Editor AlisonDonnell, University ofEast Anglia Caribbean Literature in Transition ambitiously redefines received ideas of this region’s literary traditions to present a significantly expanded terrain for critical intervention. By extending the chronology back to , before either the Caribbean or Literature had been imagined in their present currencies, challeng ing narrow definitions of literary production, and reaching across linguistic divides, the critical interventions that comprise this series deliver a substantially new framework for future study and research. Boldly inclusive, Caribbean Literature in Transition attends to transformations in genre, language, form, and platform as well as to the intricate creative intersections between oral, performative, and literary cultures, the intensity of cultural encounters and exchanges that have forged creolized sensibilities, and the complex patterning of localandglobaldiasporasthathaveremainedcentraltoCaribbeanexperienceand havecontinuedtoshapetheproductionandreceptionofitswritings.Theessays collected here explore how Caribbean literary history is marked by returning creative and critical preoccupations, as well as overlapping local and global connections inscribed by thick histories of oppression and resistance. The series importantlyrefreshesunderstandingsofthishistoryforthetwenty firstcenturyby drawing on the invigorating theoretical insights of Black Atlantic studies, queer studies, eco criticism, and the digital humanities, as well as historical materials newly restored by the archival turn in Caribbean Studies. In sum, Caribbean Literature in Transition both generates fresh approaches to familiar works and brings overlookedand forgotten works into view. Booksin the series . Caribbean Literature inTransition, Edited by ’ and . Caribbean Literature inTransition, Edited by and . Caribbean Literature inTransition, Edited by and Published online by Cambridge University Press CARIBBEAN LITERATURE – IN TRANSITION, EVELYN O’CALLAGHAN TheUniversityoftheWestIndies TIM WATSON UniversityofMiami Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents List of Illustrations page viii List of Contributors x Acknowledgements xvii Introduction Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, with contributions from Marlene L. Daut 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 v Published online by Cambridge University Press vi Contents 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 R. J.Boutelle Obeah, Religion, and Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean JanelleRodriques 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 J. Booth South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, – Atreyee Phukan Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Elizabeth Kelly Cuban Literature before : Antislavery, Historiography, Women’s Writing, and the Nation DayletDomínguez Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents vii José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean Susan Gillman Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana Sarah Jessica Johnson 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 MelanieOtto Bibliography Index Published online by Cambridge University Press List of Illustrations . George Robertson, A View in the Island of Jamaica of the Bridge Crossing the River Cobre near Spanish Town, engraved by Daniel Lerpinière. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library. page . Apes Hill Golf Club, as featured in Ins and Outs of Barbados (Edgehill, Barbados: Miller Publishing, ). Courtesy of Miller Publishing Company, Edgehill, Barbados. . ‘Nora Endeavouring to Read’, from Eliza Fenwick’s Visits to the Juvenile Library (). Courtesy of the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, Toronto Public Library. . George Robertson, A View in the Island of Jamaica of Roaring River Estate, belonging to William Beckford Esq.r, near Savannah la Mar, engraved by Thomas Vivares. Courtesy of William Reese Company. . George Robertson, A View in the Island of Jamaica of part of the River Cobre near Spanish Town, engraved by Daniel Lerpinière. Courtesy of William Reese Company. . James Hakewill, Haughton Court, Hanover, Jamaica (–). Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. . James Hakewill, The Bog Walk. From A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from Drawings Made in the Years and , by James Hakewill (London: Hurst and Robinson, ). Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. . James Hakewill, Bridge over the White River. St. Mary’s. From A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from Drawings Made in the Years and , by James Hakewill (London: viii Published online by Cambridge University Press List of Illustrations ix Hurst and Robinson, ). Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. . James Hakewill, Harbour Street, Kingston. From A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from Drawings Made in the Years and , by James Hakewill (London: Hurst and Robinson, ). Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. . Joscelyn Gardner, Bromeliad penguin (Abba) (), hand-coloured stone lithograph on frosted mylar, ” (cid:1) ”, from the series titled Creole Portraits III: ‘bringing down the flowers...’. Courtesy of Joscelyn Gardner. . Joscelyn Gardner, A Collection of Creole Portrait Heads of the Female Sex (detail) (), faux folio (digital). Courtesy of Joscelyn Gardner. Published online by Cambridge University Press Contributors . isAssociateProfessorofEnglishandAfricanaStudiesat Northeastern University. Her research and teaching focuses on Early Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature, with a specialization on the slave narrative and the novel. She is the author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, – (Palgrave, ); co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (UVA Press, ) and A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (Palgrave/Springer, ). She has published articles and book chapters in a variety of venues. . is a PhD Candidate in History at Harvard University. His dissertation examines the role of criminal law and law enforcement in the construction of post-emancipation society in the United States and Jamaica. He received his JD from Harvard Law SchoolinandreceivedbothaBAandMAfromMcGillUniversity. .. is Assistant Professor of English and a faculty affiliate in African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. - teaches Caribbean and African Literature in the Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College. She has edited several literary anthologies and journal special issues and is theauthor of ‘I and I’:Epitaphs for the Selfin theWork of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott (University of the West Indies Press, ). Her essays have appeared in such journals as Caribbean Quarterly, PMLA, Research in African Literatures, Small Axe, and Transition, as well as in numerous critical anthologies. . specializes in pre-twentieth-century Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Her first book, Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the x Published online by Cambridge University Press
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