Crossing the line : early Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation /

Crossing the line : early Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ward, Candace, author.
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	New World studies New World studies.
Subject:	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 fiction (English) Colonies in literature. Creoles. Literature. Plantation life in literature. West Indian fiction (English) Caribbean Area -- In literature. West Indies -- In literature. Caribbean Area. West Indies. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12351768

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation
ISBN:	9780813940007 0813940001 9780813940021 0813940028 9780813940014 081394001X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Print version: Ward, Candace. Crossing the line. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017 9780813940007

Table of Contents:

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.