Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution /
Mèuller, Gesine,
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution / Gesine Mèuller. - 1 online resource (367 pages)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- I Introduction -- II Literature and the Colonial Question -- III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between -- IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation -- V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities -- VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes -- VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation -- VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean -- IX Conclusion -- X Works Cited -- Afterword
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies - in contrast to France's strong presence and binding force - is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence. The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012.
In English.
9783110495416 3110495414 9783110495003 3110495007 9783110492330 3110492334
10.1515/9783110495416 doi 9783110495003
00017647
1800-1899
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Social change--History--Caribbean Area--19th century.
Caribbean literature (French)--Social aspects.
Caribbean literature (Spanish)--Social aspects.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and society--History--Caribbean Area--19th century.
Caribbean literature--Colonial influence.
(Post)Colonial Studies.
(Post)Koloniale Literatur.
Caribbean Literature.
Cultural Transfer.
Karibische Literatur.
Kulturtransfer.
Romanticism.
Romantik.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Social & cultural history.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Literature and society.
Imperialism in literature.
Caribbean literature--Colonial influence.
Caribbean literature.
Caribbean Area--Social conditions--19th century.
Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
440
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution / Gesine Mèuller. - 1 online resource (367 pages)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- I Introduction -- II Literature and the Colonial Question -- III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between -- IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation -- V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities -- VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes -- VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation -- VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean -- IX Conclusion -- X Works Cited -- Afterword
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies - in contrast to France's strong presence and binding force - is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence. The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012.
In English.
9783110495416 3110495414 9783110495003 3110495007 9783110492330 3110492334
10.1515/9783110495416 doi 9783110495003
00017647
1800-1899
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Social change--History--Caribbean Area--19th century.
Caribbean literature (French)--Social aspects.
Caribbean literature (Spanish)--Social aspects.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and society--History--Caribbean Area--19th century.
Caribbean literature--Colonial influence.
(Post)Colonial Studies.
(Post)Koloniale Literatur.
Caribbean Literature.
Cultural Transfer.
Karibische Literatur.
Kulturtransfer.
Romanticism.
Romantik.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Social & cultural history.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Literature and society.
Imperialism in literature.
Caribbean literature--Colonial influence.
Caribbean literature.
Caribbean Area--Social conditions--19th century.
Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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