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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Chapter 13 Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 14 Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
- Chapter 15 The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
- Chapter 16 The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba
- Chapter 17 South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920
- Chapter 18 Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Chapter 19 Cuban Literature before 1920
- Chapter 20 José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
- Chapter 21 Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 18 - Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
from Part III - The Caribbean Region in Transition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Chapter 13 Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 14 Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
- Chapter 15 The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
- Chapter 16 The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba
- Chapter 17 South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920
- Chapter 18 Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Chapter 19 Cuban Literature before 1920
- Chapter 20 José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
- Chapter 21 Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This essay explores how authors, texts, and forms moved throughout the Caribbean in the period, transgressing boundaries of language and geography. Regional responses to the Haitian Revolution and other Caribbean antislavery and anticolonial movements reveal the clear trans-Caribbean focus of many nineteenth-century Caribbean writers. Additionally, the growing sphere of newspapers provided a concrete means through which ideas circulated throughout the region. This chapter looks primarily to Haiti and Trinidad as early examples through which to consider literary anglophone–francophone connections and the formations of Caribbean identity that heavily influenced later Caribbean writers. I argue that the circulation of ideas and authors in the period ultimately generated complex negotiation of contested spaces, shifting boundaries, and complex identities that gave rise to conceptions of creoleness and exile that are foundational to Caribbean literature.
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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920 , pp. 294 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021