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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution / / Gesine Müller



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Autore: Müller Gesine Visualizza persona
Titolo: Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution / / Gesine Müller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367)
Disciplina: 440
Soggetto topico: Literature: history & criticism
Literary studies: general
Social & cultural history
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
Soggetto non controllato: (Post)Colonial Studies
Caribbean Literature
Cultural Transfer
Romanticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Crossroads of Colonial Cultures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-049233-4
3-11-049541-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910272346903321
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