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UNINA9910821199703321 |
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Autore |
Ward Candace |
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Titolo |
Crossing the line : early creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation / / Candace Ward |
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Caribbean fiction (English) - 19th century - History and criticism |
West Indian fiction (English) - 19th century - History and criticism |
Creoles - Caribbean Area - History - 18th century |
Colonies in literature |
Plantation life in literature |
Caribbean Area In literature |
West Indies In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: why creole? why the novel? -- Hortus creolensis: cultivating the creole novel -- "A permanent revolution": time, history, and constructions of Africa in Cynric Williams's Hamel, the obeah man -- "Lost subjects": the specter of idleness and the work of Marly; or, a planter's life in Jamaica -- Recentering the Caribbean: revolution and the creole cosmopolis in Warner Arundell -- Conclusion: the unfinished business of early creole (historical) novels. |
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"Crossing the Line examines a group of novels by white creoles -- white writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Four novels anchor the study: three anonymously published works, Montgomery; or, the West-Indian Adventurer (1812-13), Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827) and Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica (1828), and E. L. Joseph's Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole (1838). Revealing the contradictions embedded in the texts' constructions of the Caribbean 'realities' they seek to dramatize, Candace Ward shows how these white creole authors gave birth to characters and enlivened settings and |
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situations in ways that shed light on the many sociopolitical fictions that shaped life in the anglophone Atlantic" -- |
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UNINA9910253354103321 |
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Autore |
McGregor Russell |
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Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia : Revisiting the Empty North / / by Russell McGregor |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Environmental policy |
Political sociology |
Australasia |
History |
Environmental Policy |
Political Sociology |
Australian History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- Chapter 1: Anxieties Aroused -- Chapter 2: Whiteness versus the Tropics -- Chapter 3: Acquiring a White Elephant -- Chapter 4: A Dog in the Manger -- Chapter 5: Colouring the Empty Spaces -- Chapter 6: Redeeming the Desolation -- Chapter 7: Downgrading the North -- Chapter 8: Vulnerabilities Laid Bare -- Chapter 9: Modest Projections, Massive Projects -- Chapter 10: The Divisive North -- Chapter 11: Whither the White North? -- Chapter 12: Emptiness Attenuated -- Epilogue, or Are We There Yet?. |
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This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia's tropical regions |
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impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from apprehensions about white nationhood coming under international censure and misgivings about the natural attributes of the north - and elucidates Australians' changing appreciations of the natural environments of the north, their shifting attitudes toward race and their unsettled conceptions of Asia. |
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