Editors:
- Offers readings and contextualisation of important early Caribbean texts
- Looks to explore and define aspects of the field of early Caribbean literary history, challenging the idea that the Early Caribbean was a region with significant 'native' literary cultures
- Contains analysis that will be useful to scholars from other disciplines, such as Early American and Black Atlantic literatures, history, gender, and sexuality studies
Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of the early twentieth century. However, as recent research has shown, although the printing press did not arrive in the Caribbean until 1718, the roots of Caribbean literary history predate its arrival. This collection contributes to this research by filling a significant gap in literary and historical knowledge with the first collection of essays specifically focused on the literatures of the early Caribbean before 1850.
Reviews
“Any scholar interested in the literature of the Anglophone Caribbean would do well to consult it, as would those studying the evolution of literature and book production within the British Empire.” (Sam Clark, Modern Language Review, Vol. 115, January, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of English, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Nicole N. Aljoe
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Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, New Castle-Upon-Tyne, UK
Brycchan Carey
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Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, USA
Thomas W. Krise
About the editors
Nicole N. Aljoe is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northeastern University, USA. She is co-director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and editor of Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society. Author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1836 (Palgrave, 2012), she also co-edited Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014).
Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807 (Palgrave, 2005) and From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658–1761 (2012). His edition of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative was published in 2018.
Thomas W. Krise is President Emeritus and Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran Universityin Tacoma, Washington, USA. A former president of the Early Caribbean Society and the Society of Early Americanists, he is the editor of Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (1999).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean
Book Subtitle: Islands in the Stream
Editors: Nicole N. Aljoe, Brycchan Carey, Thomas W. Krise
Series Title: New Caribbean Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71592-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71591-9Published: 23 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10081-0Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71592-6Published: 04 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2691-3011
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Latin American Culture