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French literature (outside France) --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Utopias in literature. --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Caribbean Area in literature --- Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature --- Utopias in literature --- Caribbean Area --- America --- In literature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature --- Utopias --- Description and travel --- Caribbean Area - In literature --- America - In literature

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The Purloined Islands offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution. The interconnected histories of colonization, migration, slavery, and political struggle thrust writers from both regions into a vibrant literary conversation across national borders. Jeff Karem charts this dialogue and its patterns of influence through an analysis of key literary and cultural sources in English, French, and Spanish, including a large body of rare archival evidence. What the author identifies in this wide-ranging exchange is the Caribbean’s vital contribution not only to the literatures of the American hemisphere but also to the literary and intellectual culture of the United States itself. Specifically, he shows how such movements as pan-Africanism, the New Negro Renaissance, and pan-American modernism have significant Caribbean roots, although the United States has often failed to recognize them, effectively “purloining” those resources without acknowledgment. As his title’s allusion to Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” suggests, Karem argues that the contributions of the Caribbean have been borrowed, appropriated, and nationalized by U.S. culture but are hidden in plain sight. Both its multilingual character and its emphasis on the reciprocity in cultural cross-currents will make the book of interest to readers not only in Caribbean and American cultural and literary studies but also in pan-American or border studies, Black Atlantic studies, and African American studies.

Caraïbes [Région des ] dans la littérature --- Caribbean Area in literature --- Caribisch gebied in de literatuur --- Région des Caraïbes dans la littérature --- Caribbean influences. --- Caribbean American authors --- American literature --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism. --- American influences. --- Caribbean Area --- In literature. --- Caribbean influences --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- American influences --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature antillaise --- Région caraïbe --- Influence antillaise --- Influence américaine --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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Colonial Rys: The Modernist Period presents Jean Rhys as an insightful colonial observer of the European modernist modernist moment, demonstrating that there is significant colonial content in all of her major early works, not only in the single, obviously colonial novel of the period. Whereas previous colonial studies focus more strictly on matters of style, such as Rhys's dialogism, in establishing the coloniality of what are called--in contradistinction to her "Caribbean"novels--her "European" novels, this study brings to light highly developed colonial polemics that are integral to the European texts, shaping their stories and plots. This reassessment of Rhys's European novels, which is based on close readings of the colonial allusions and contexts of the texts, points to a connection between them and the colonial novel of the period, namely that each of them addresses in some way the implications of colonial and imperial history, most particularly in terms of European culture and society. In arguing that Rhys is a keen diagnostician of and commentator on Euromodernist culture, this book points to a new dimension of her early writing, aligning her Conrad and Joyce as a significant colonial voice of Modernism, and making it possible to say, finally, that all of Rhys's early novels are vital precursors of Wide Sargasso Sea, that there is an unbroken colonial continuum in Rhys's writing from its beginning to its end.

Modernism (Literature) --- Women and literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Femmes et littérature --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Rhys, Jean --- Caribbean Area in literature --- Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Femmes et littérature --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature --- RHYS (JEAN), 1894-1979 --- MODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- REGION CARAÏBE --- IMPERIALISME DANS LA LITTERATURE --- COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- CARAÏBES --- ANGLETERRE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- Colonies --- Dans la littérature