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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures: Caribbean Literatures in the age of Revolution (in English)
Gesine Muller (Author)
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures: Caribbean Literatures in the age of Revolution (in English) - Gesine Muller
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Synopsis "Crossroads of Colonial Cultures: Caribbean Literatures in the age of Revolution (in 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 (17891886). 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 motherlands ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies in contrast to Frances 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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