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Crossing the line : early creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation

Ward, Candace, author

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\"Crossing the Line examines a group of novels by white creoles -- white writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Four novels anchor the study: three anonymously published works, Montgomery; or, the West-Indian Adventurer (1812-13), Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827) and Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica (1828), and E. L. Joseph's Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole (1838). Revealing the contradictions embedded in the texts' constructions of the Caribbean 'realities' they seek to dramatize, Candace Ward shows how these white creole authors gave birth to characters and enlivened settings and situations in ways that shed light on the many sociopolitical fictions that shaped life in the anglophone Atlantic\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Subject: Caribbean fiction (English) 19th century History and criticism. / West Indian fiction (English) 19th century History and criticism. / Creoles Caribbean Area History 18th century. / Colonies in literature. / Plantation life in literature. / Caribbean Area In literature. / West Indies In literature.
• ISBN: 9780813940007, 9780813940014

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9205.4.W37 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE