Crossroads of Colonial Cultures (Monographie)

Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution


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Autor(en)

Gesine Mueller

Verlag
De Gruyter
Stadt
Berlin/Boston
Publikationsdatum
2018
Auflage
1
Weiterführender Link
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/476168
ISBN
978-3-11-049500-3 ( im KVK suchen )
Thematik nach Sprachen
Sprachübergreifend
Disziplin(en)
Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagwörter
Romantik, Kulturtransfer, Karibische Literatur, (Post)Koloniale Literatur

Exposé

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.

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Ersteller des Eintrags
Gabrielle Cornefert
Erstellungsdatum
Freitag, 18. Mai 2018, 12:12 Uhr
Letzte Änderung
Samstag, 19. Mai 2018, 09:50 Uhr