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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures: Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution

Crossroads of Colonial Cultures: Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution

Müller, Gesine

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Literary CriticismGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $66.99

ISBN10: 3110495007
ISBN13: 9783110495003
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Apr 23 2018
Pages: 367
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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