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This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to 'race' and gender.

West Indian literature (English) --- Slavery in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- Caribbean Area --- Women --- Women and literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- English literature --- West Indian literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Caribbean area --- Enslaved persons in literature --- CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- CARIBBEAN LITERATURE --- WOMEN AUTHORS

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This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite 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 within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.

Caribbean literature (English) --- Caribbean literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects

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This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of “madness” across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures. .

Caribbean literature (English) --- Mental illness in literature. --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- History and criticism. --- Latin American literature. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Latin American/Caribbean Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.

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Written to honor the career of Bénédicte Ledent, this volume explores the multiple ramifications that the notion of genealogy takes in, across and beyond Caryl Phillips’s work; it offers a compelling revisiting of Phillips’s influence in the contemporary moment.Thematically and structurally, the work of the Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips reimagines the notion of genealogy. Phillips’s fiction, drama, and non-fiction foreground broken filiations and forever-deferred promises of new affiliations in the aftermath of slavery and colonization. His texts are also in dialogue with multiple historical figures and literary influences, imagining around the life of the African American comedian Bert Williams and the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys, or retelling the story of Othello. Additionally, Phillips’s work resonates with that of other writers and visual artists, such as Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, or Isaac Julien. Written to honor the career of renown Phillipsian scholar Bénédicte Ledent, the contributions to this volume, including one by Phillips himself, explore the multiple ramifications of genealogy, across and beyond Phillips’s work.

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One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find an echo in works written more recently in the 1980s and 1990s by American, African, African-American and Caribbean writers. About twenty writers come under the scrutiny of renowned scholars, offering perspectives into what makes it so necessary today for writers, critics and readers alike to revisit, reassess and reappropriate the canonical texts of slavery and post-slavery literature. The specificity of this collection is to focus on neo-slave novels while bringing together African-American and Caribbean authors. On ne peut qu’être impressionné par le nombre d’œuvres littéraires de fiction qui se rapportent à l’esclavage et au commerce des esclaves, répondant ainsi aux premiers récits d’esclaves publiés aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Si les auteurs africains-américains des années soixante et soixante-dix sont maintenant bien connus, toute une nouvelle vague d’écrivains Américains, Africains, Africains-Américains et Caribbéens, poursuivent et renouvèlent, depuis les années quatre-vingt et quatre vingt-dix, cette tradition. Rassemblés autour de l’œuvre d’une vingtaine d’écrivains, des universitaires de renom ouvrent, dans ce recueil, des perspectives nouvelles pour comprendre la nécessité qui poussent écrivains, critiques et lecteurs à relire, réécrire et revisiter cette littérature de l’esclavage encore aujourd’hui.

Comparative literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Slave trade in literature --- Slavery in literature --- Caribbean literature --- American literature --- African literature (English) --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism --- Caribbean literature - Criticism and interpretation --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- African literature (English) - History and criticism --- Literature --- postcolonial --- récit d’esclave --- littérature Caraïbe --- littérature Africaine-Américaine --- slave narrative --- African-American literature --- ESCLAVES --- ESCLAVAGE ET ESCLAVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- ROMAN ANTILLAIS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- NOIRS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- CARAÏBES --- ETATS-UNIS --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- Histoire et critique --- AUTEURS NOIRS AMERICAINS --- CARAIBES