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Crossing the Line - Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation (Paperback)
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Crossing the Line - Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation (Paperback)
Series: New World Studies
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Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century
novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives
were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies.
Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies "beyond the
line," these writers were perceived by their metropolitan
contemporaries as far removed-geographically and morally-from
Britain and "true" Britons. Routinely portrayed as single-minded in
their pursuit of money and irredeemably corrupted by their
investment in slavery, white creoles faced a considerable challenge
in showing they were driven by more than a desire for power and
profit. Crossing the Line explores the integral role early creole
novels played in this cultural labor. The emancipation-era novels
that anchor the study question categories of genre, historiography,
politics, class, race, and identity. Revealing the contradictions
embedded in the texts' constructions of the Caribbean "realities"
they seek to dramatize, Candace Ward shows how these 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.
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