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  • Chapter 7 - Towards a West Indian Romance Poetics

  • from Part I - Literary and Generic Transitions
  • Edited by Evelyn O'Callaghan, University of the West Indies, Tim Watson, University of Miami
  • Book:
    Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
    Published online:
    16 December 2020
    Print publication:
    14 January 2021, pp 119-134

  • Summary

    This essay discusses the manner in which the romance is reconfigured in the West Indies and offers some generalized contexts and discussions as a way of formulating a working definition for the genre of the West Indian Romance. It examines the evolution of the West Indian romance during the period 1827–1917 and investigates the emergence and development of the West Indian romance, first, during the immediate pre- and post-Emancipation period, 1820–1860, and then from 1865 to 1918. It develops this discussion by using William Hamley’s Captain Clutterbuck’s Champagne: A West Indian Reminiscence (1862). This British version of the 'West Indian romance' is balanced against a reading of Stephen Cobham’s Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White (1907) with the aim of demonstrating the production of a West Indian romance in the modern colonial period by West Indian writers. Each of these perspectives provides a kaleidoscope of feelings that allows for a more comprehensive understanding of how the romance emerged and functioned.