Crossroads of Colonial Cultures

Gesine Müller

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

Crossroads of Colonial Cultures

Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution

Gesine Müller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110495416

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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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Gesine Müller, University of Cologne, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
I Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
II Literature and the Colonial Question Open Access Download PDF	56
III Literary Snapshots of the In-Between Open Access Download PDF	93
IV Processes of Ethnological Circulation Open Access Download PDF	145
V The Imperial Dimension of French Romanticism: Asymmetrical Relationalities Open Access Download PDF	231
VI Transcaribbean Dimensions: New Orleans as the Center of French-speaking Circulation Processes Open Access Download PDF	263
VII Excursus: Paradigm Change within Historical Caribbean Research and Its Narrative Representation Open Access Download PDF	282
VIII Knowledge about Conviviality, or on the Relevance of Research into the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Open Access Download PDF	316
IX Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	329
X Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	338
Afterword Open Access Download PDF	359

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Frankoromanisten, Hispanisten
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 359
Keywords: Caribbean Literature; Cultural Transfer; Romanticism; (Post)Colonial Studies

eBook

Published: April 23, 2018
ISBN: 9783110495416

Paperback

Published: April 23, 2018
ISBN: 9783110495003