03332nam 2200589 450 991079695270332120220124170920.00-8139-4002-8(CKB)4100000005249190(MiAaPQ)EBC5456144(OCoLC)1045426562(MdBmJHUP)muse56834(Au-PeEL)EBL5456144(EXLCZ)99410000000524919020180810d2017 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCrossing the line early creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation /Candace WardCharlottesville ;London :University of Virginia Press,2017.1 online resource (225 pages) illustrationsNew World studies0-8139-4001-X 0-8139-4000-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.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."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 situations in ways that shed light on the many sociopolitical fictions that shaped life in the anglophone Atlantic" --Provided by publisher.New World studies.Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipationCaribbean fiction (English)19th centuryHistory and criticismWest Indian fiction (English)19th centuryHistory and criticismCreolesCaribbean AreaHistory18th centuryColonies in literaturePlantation life in literatureCaribbean AreaIn literatureWest IndiesIn literatureCaribbean fiction (English)History and criticism.West Indian fiction (English)History and criticism.CreolesHistoryColonies in literature.Plantation life in literature.823/.7099729Ward Candace1112868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796952703321Crossing the line3757184UNINA