Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and
performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late
eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing
multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical
performance alongside often violent historical events of the
nineteenth century - slavery, Emancipation, the Morant Bay
Rebellion, the era of blackface minstrelsy, indentureship and
immigration - it revises the common view that literary dialect in
the Caribbean was a relatively modern, twentieth-century
phenomenon, associated with regional anti-colonial or
black-affirming nationalist projects. It explores both the lives
and the literary texts of a number of early progenitors, among
these a number of pro-slavery white creoles as well as the first
black author of literary dialect in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Creole Noise features a number of fascinating historical
characters, among these Henry Garland Murray, a black Jamaican
journalist and lecturer; Michael McTurk, the white magistrate from
British Guiana who, as 'Quow', authored one of the earliest books
of dialect literature; as well as blackface comedian and
calypsonian Sam Manning, who along with Marcus Garvey's ex-wife,
Amy Ashwood Garvey, wrote a popular dialect play that traveled
across the United States. In so doing it reconstructs an earlier
period of dialect literature, usually isolated or dismissed from
the cultural narrative as racist mimicry or merely political, not
part of a continuum of artistic production in the Caribbean.
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