Table Of ContentCARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSITION,
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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().
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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
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CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
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IN TRANSITION,
EVELYN O’CALLAGHAN
TheUniversityoftheWestIndies
TIM WATSON
UniversityofMiami
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
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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
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